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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 9, Salvation from Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lack enable?
(a) Prisoners to communicate freely.
(b) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.
(c) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.
(d) Scurvy and other diseases.

2. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.
(b) They are allowed monthly visitors.
(c) The library is reopened.
(d) They are allowed weekly visitors.

3. What does Ginzburg write?
(a) A treatise on the abuses of the Soviet system.
(b) A novel about her childhood.
(c) An appeal to the head of the Politburo.
(d) A chapbook of poetry.

4. How is Vevers described?
(a) Cold and calculating.
(b) Warm.
(c) Kind.
(d) Irrational.

5. What do Ginzburg, Rimma, Ira and Julia discover?
(a) They are bonding over the stress of prison.
(b) They are the only women transferred to Moscow.
(c) They are all unwilling to compromise their beliefs.
(d) They have one thing in common that may have led to their arrests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?

2. What is done over the next three days?

3. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?

4. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?

5. What do most of the women receive for sentences?

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