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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 1, Car Number 7 | Part II, Chapter 2, All Sorts to Make a World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is familiar about the journey the women are making?
(a) They are each given two sets of good clothing.
(b) They have fairly decent food.
(c) There's good medical care.
(d) It still has searches, meal routines and ration stops.

2. About what do the female prisoners disagree?
(a) Stalin.
(b) The innate goodness of humanity.
(c) The need to "behave."
(d) The need for purges.

3. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(b) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.
(c) The warden trips over a threshold.
(d) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.

4. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?
(a) Biologist.
(b) Librarian.
(c) Historian.
(d) Physics Professor.

5. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?
(a) They count tin cups.
(b) They have the prisoners line up on their name in a hallway.
(c) They have each prisoner write his/her name on a piece of paper.
(d) They count pairs of feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?

2. What is crawling with insects?

3. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?

4. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?

5. What is the Italian woman doing?

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