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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 Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?
(a) To ask her friends to give her their endorsements.
(b) To ask her husband to denounce her.
(c) To humble herself.
(d) To go far away.

2. What has Julia been saving?
(a) All the letters from her husband.
(b) Butter and sugar.
(c) Her grandchildren's letters.
(d) Her commissary coupons.

3. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?
(a) So the guards can hose down the cells.
(b) So the other prisoners do not hear them complain.
(c) So the guards can contain the fire.
(d) So they can get some Vitamin D from the sunshine.

4. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?
(a) To get Stalin's cronies into all the important positions in the government.
(b) To trim the party, which had stopped being such an elite organization.
(c) To kill off anyone that might challenge Stalin.
(d) There does not seem to be a reason for it.

5. In what year does Professor Elvov visit Ginzburg?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are Ginzburg to be allowed to do?

3. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?

4. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?

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

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