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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is done over the next three days?
(a) Good food is distributed.
(b) Medical inspections.
(c) Indoctrination begins.
(d) Re-trials for some prisoners.

2. What do the two women do at night instead of sleeping?
(a) Read.
(b) Have philosophical discussions.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Create games to play.

3. About what do the female prisoners disagree?
(a) The need to "behave."
(b) Stalin.
(c) The need for purges.
(d) The innate goodness of humanity.

4. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?
(a) So the guards can contain the fire.
(b) So the other prisoners do not hear them complain.
(c) So the guards can hose down the cells.
(d) So they can get some Vitamin D from the sunshine.

5. What helps Ginzburg sleep?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Singing.
(c) Praying.
(d) Composing mental poetry.

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

7. What does Ginzburg hear in the hall as her visitor leaves?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) Singing.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Screaming.

8. Who surrounds the women as they march to the camp?
(a) Peasant farmers.
(b) Guards and dogs.
(c) The countryside.
(d) Male prisoners.

9. Why do the prisoners want the guards to open windows and other sources of fresh air?
(a) Fresh air is the only thing that reminds the prisoners of the outside.
(b) There is a contagious flu going around.
(c) The cells are beginning to have a lot of mold in them.
(d) There is smoke in the cell blocks.

10. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?
(a) Writing and passing notes to other prisoners.
(b) Buying more than her rations of things from the commissary.
(c) Hoarding food.
(d) Singing in her cell.

11. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?
(a) The only woman who is acquitted.
(b) The only woman who receives a fifteen year sentence.
(c) The woman who receives the shortest sentence.
(d) The only other woman who receives a ten-year sentence.

12. What does Kucherenko demand?
(a) The prisoners be given better clothing.
(b) The work quotas be lowered.
(c) The work quotas be raised.
(d) The women be given lighter duty.

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

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

15. When is Ginzburg freed?
(a) About three years after arriving at Elgen.
(b) After Stalin's death.
(c) When she is almost seventy.
(d) About six months after arriving at Elgen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vasily Petukhov notice when he sees Ginzburg?

2. What strikes Ginzburg when talking with Tulub?

3. What is familiar about the journey the women are making?

4. Whom does Ginzburg finally meet face-to-face?

5. What does Ginzburg write?

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