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 has happened to the entire government of Tartary?
(a) The Tartary government meetings have been suspended.
(b) The Tartary government has been accused of collusion with terrorists.
(c) They have resigned their positions en-masse.
(d) The have been imprisoned.

2. 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 son had died.
(c) It is the anniversary of when she first started teaching.
(d) It is the anniversary of when her young daughter had died.

3. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?
(a) Buying more than her rations of things from the commissary.
(b) Singing in her cell.
(c) Writing and passing notes to other prisoners.
(d) Hoarding food.

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

5. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?
(a) She criticizes them for their methods.
(b) She asks forgiveness from the party.
(c) She absolves her family in her crimes.
(d) She confesses to everything of which she is accused.