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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. What does Vevers use frequently?
(a) LSD.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cocaine.

2. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
(a) She loves the Party more than she loves him.
(b) He was embezzling.
(c) He beat her all the time.
(d) He was going to make up lies about her involvement with Elvov.

3. Who comes to see Ginzburg?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The prison physician.
(d) The prison governor.

4. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?
(a) She is no longer allowed to teach and it's the first day of school.
(b) It is the anniversary of when her young daughter had died.
(c) It is the anniversary of when her young son had died.
(d) It is the anniversary of when she first started teaching.

5. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?
(a) The only woman who receives a fifteen year sentence.
(b) The only other woman who receives a ten-year sentence.
(c) The woman who receives the shortest sentence.
(d) The only woman who is acquitted.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?

2. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?

3. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?

4. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

5. What does Ginzburg want to prove?

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