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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. Why does Ginzburg pass out?
(a) When she is choked by an interrogator.
(b) The beatings.
(c) The lack of decent food.
(d) The heat.

2. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.
(b) By saying that Stalin's deputy of foreign affairs gave her the book.
(c) By saying that her lecture was not about Trotsky.
(d) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.

3. What does Ginzburg observe when she arrives in Moscow?
(a) Her husband is here.
(b) Only the intelligentsia have been targeted.
(c) The purges have been massive.
(d) Her son is here.

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

5. What is the evidence that many people are being charged?
(a) Food is scarce.
(b) The prison cells are overcrowded.
(c) The whole system is running 24 hours per day.
(d) The sounds of torture are everywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does "Northern Worker" carry?

2. Why do the prisoners want the guards to open windows and other sources of fresh air?

3. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

4. What does Vevers use frequently?

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

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