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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 do both Ginzburg and Julia wonder?
(a) If they will make it out of prison alive.
(b) If their husbands are still alive.
(c) If the new warden will be better.
(d) If their children are suffering.

2. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?
(a) Waterboarding.
(b) The Stream.
(c) The Conveyor Belt.
(d) The gauntlet.

3. What do the two women continue to hide?
(a) Notes from other prisoners.
(b) Fish bones and medicine.
(c) Their writings.
(d) Letters smuggled into them from their families.

4. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.
(b) Its battery is run down.
(c) It has not been wound since she entered prison.
(d) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.

5. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?
(a) She gets sick from breathing the moldy air.
(b) She is told it is forbidden.
(c) She gets bad shin splints from the stone floor.
(d) She slips on the stone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tsarevsky say about Elvov?

3. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?

4. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?

5. What language does Ginzburg know that helps her get an easier assignment?

(see the answer key)

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