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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 39, Next Year in Jerusalem | Part I, Chapter 40, Day after Day, Month after Month.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?
(a) 22.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 16.

2. How does Ginzburg describe Stalin?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Insane.
(c) Virile.
(d) Ugly and repulsive.

3. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?
(a) She is exonerated of all but three minor charges.
(b) She is to go work on a communal farm and teach there.
(c) She is expelled from the Communist Party.
(d) She is to be executed.

4. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?
(a) She sets herself on fire.
(b) She drinks acid.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) She hangs herself.

5. Who summons Ginzburg?
(a) The district committee.
(b) The politburo in Moscow.
(c) The head of the GGP.
(d) The deputy chief of the Moscow Communist party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?

2. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?

3. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?

4. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?

5. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?

(see the answer key)

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