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

2. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) The library is reopened.
(b) They are allowed weekly visitors.
(c) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.
(d) They are allowed monthly visitors.

3. Who is Zinaida Abramova?
(a) An old friend of Ginzburg's.
(b) A torturer.
(c) A person placed in the prison as a spy.
(d) The wife of the prime minister of Tartary.

4. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.
(b) By saying that her lecture was not about Trotsky.
(c) By saying no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.
(d) By saying that Stalin's deputy of foreign affairs gave her the book.

5. Who is Milda?
(a) One of the female guards.
(b) An elderly Latvian woman.
(c) A young, German opera singer.
(d) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?

2. What do the two women continue to hide?

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

4. Where is Ginzburg taken?

5. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?

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