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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 47, A Bathhouse! Just an Ordinary Bathhouse! | Part I, Chapter 48, The Ruins of Sclusselburg.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?
(a) To sing when she wakes in the morning.
(b) To stop up her ears with cotton.
(c) To rat on other prisoners.
(d) To teach her to read.

2. What is Julia determined to see?
(a) Her children grow up.
(b) Her grandchildren again.
(c) Her husband again.
(d) The New Year.

3. What happens when Ginzburg and Karepova are put in a cell together?
(a) They blame each other for being a turncoat.
(b) They talk for hours on end at end.
(c) They plot ways to escape.
(d) They ration their speaking so as not to run out of things to say.

4. What are the prisoners told to do before being transferred?
(a) To submit to a lice examination.
(b) To leave all their possessions behind in their cells.
(c) To wash and pair off.
(d) To write and let their families know they are being transferred.

5. What does Ginzburg hear in the hall as her visitor leaves?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) Singing.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Arguing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ginzburg believe are dying off or being killed?

2. Why is Ginzburg happy after her trial?

3. About what does Julia become optimistic?

4. What are Ginzburg to be allowed to do?

5. Who is Yefrem?

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