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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. Who is Milda?
(a) An elderly Latvian woman.
(b) A young, German opera singer.
(c) One of the female guards.
(d) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.

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

3. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) To await her sentence.
(b) The charges against her were dropped.
(c) To settle her personal affairs.
(d) The charges were held in abeyance.

4. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?
(a) Ginzburg is made to stay awake.
(b) The interrogations stop.
(c) Ginzburg is shown her son being interrogated.
(d) Ginzburg is physically abused.

5. What news does Ginzburg get one day in a singing message?
(a) Her husband has been arrested.
(b) Her mother has been arrested.
(c) Her son is dead.
(d) Her mother is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Julia become optimistic?

2. How does Ginzburg describe Stalin?

3. Who is Comrade Beylin?

4. What do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?

5. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?

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