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

2. What does Ginzburg want to prove?
(a) Stalin is mentally unstable.
(b) Stalin is going to far.
(c) She is innocent.
(d) Gossip is not truth.

3. What eventually happens to Sagidullin?
(a) He is released.
(b) He is sent to Sibera for six years.
(c) He is sentenced to death, which is commuted to life in prison.
(d) He is shot.

4. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 22.

5. What is crawling with insects?
(a) Bad sugar Ginzburg bought from the prison commissary.
(b) The slop pails.
(c) The underground cell.
(d) The halls and cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who puts on a show for the camp?

2. What do the two women do at night instead of sleeping?

3. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?

4. Why are the window fans in the cells shut off?

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

(see the answer key)

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