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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 Ginzburg's visitor tell her?
(a) Her son is still very ill.
(b) She is having an appeal filed.
(c) Her children are well.
(d) She needs to eat.

2. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?
(a) Dead.
(b) At his home.
(c) In the same cellar as Ginzburg.
(d) In the Gulag.

3. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?
(a) Physics Professor.
(b) Historian.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Librarian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?

2. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

3. What is Julia determined to see?

4. What is crawling with insects?

5. How long does the second round of interrogations last?

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