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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long is Ginzburg at Yaroslavl?
(a) Her entire prison sentence.
(b) A little over two years.
(c) Just a couple months.
(d) About a year.

2. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
(a) To help care for the patients.
(b) To take baths.
(c) To receive letters from home.
(d) To eat better.

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

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

5. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?
(a) Her children are well.
(b) She is having an appeal filed.
(c) Her son is still very ill.
(d) She needs to eat.

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

7. What language does Ginzburg know that helps her get an easier assignment?
(a) Greek.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

8. What happens when Ginzburg and Karepova are put in a cell together?
(a) They ration their speaking so as not to run out of things to say.
(b) They blame each other for being a turncoat.
(c) They plot ways to escape.
(d) They talk for hours on end at end.

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

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

11. How long do Ginzburg's parents spend in prison?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two months.
(c) Almost a year.
(d) Two years.

12. What are the prisoners told to do before being transferred?
(a) To submit to a lice examination.
(b) To leave all their possessions behind in their cells.
(c) To write and let their families know they are being transferred.
(d) To wash and pair off.

13. What are the women happy to do?
(a) Cook meals in the kitchen after the cook dies.
(b) Share what they each have.
(c) Clean up the prison grounds for a chance to be outside.
(d) Help cut each other's hair.

14. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?
(a) To not eat for a week.
(b) To spend three days in the underground punishment cell.
(c) To hand over all her writing materials.
(d) To move to a cell by herself and where talk to no one else.

15. In what format does Ginzburg write her memoir about her prison experiences?
(a) A series of essays.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Chronological story telling.
(d) Letter format.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kucherenko demand?

2. How are the sections divided up at the transfer camp?

3. When is Ginzburg freed?

4. What are Ginzburg to be allowed to do?

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

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