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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginzburg learn at the end of June?
(a) Her mother had died.
(b) Her father has died.
(c) Her son has left the Soviet Union.
(d) Her husband has been released.

2. Who is Vasily Petukhov?
(a) The new prison camp director.
(b) A lawyer from Moscow.
(c) A doctor from Leningrad.
(d) A guard who often whips prisoners.

3. Who is the latest of the higher members of the Party to be imprisoned?
(a) Yezhov.
(b) Bukharin.
(c) Tukhachevsky.
(d) Zhdanov.

4. What is familiar about the journey the women are making?
(a) It still has searches, meal routines and ration stops.
(b) They have fairly decent food.
(c) They are each given two sets of good clothing.
(d) There's good medical care.

5. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?
(a) A pleasant but incompetent supervisor.
(b) A devil.
(c) An angel.
(d) An illiterate peasant.

6. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?
(a) Forcing a prisoner to eat.
(b) Getting ready to execute a prisoner.
(c) Hosing a prisoner down with freezing water.
(d) She has no idea.

7. Whom does Ginzburg have in mind as she is writing her memoirs?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandson.
(d) Her granddaughter.

8. Who is Angelina Klimenko?
(a) A prison guard.
(b) A physician and the wife of a secret police investigator.
(c) A secret police investigator.
(d) A nurse who used to work in the fields as a peasant.

9. What does Petukhov vow?
(a) He will harass Ginzburg until she cries out.
(b) He will get Ginzburg out on early release.
(c) Ginzburg will survive her prison term.
(d) No prisoner will ever be released.

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

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

12. What does Ginzburg say is at the base of the walls in her cell?
(a) Names and dates sculpted on the stone.
(b) Blood stains.
(c) Mold.
(d) Mementos of previous prisoners.

13. About what does Julia become optimistic?
(a) They would be released soon.
(b) She and Ginzburg would be transferred to a more humane prison.
(c) Her husband would get permission to visit her.
(d) The new prison Governor would be more benevolent.

14. What do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?
(a) A flower.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

15. How is Julia and Ginzburg's existence described?
(a) Fairly comfortable.
(b) Dismal.
(c) Bleak.
(d) Structured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ginzburg hide the fact that she is ill?

2. Who comes to see Ginzburg?

3. The women are sent from the prison _______________.

4. What helps Ginzburg sleep?

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

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