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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Vasily Petukhov?
(a) A lawyer from Moscow.
(b) The new prison camp director.
(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) Tukhachevsky.
(b) Bukharin.
(c) Zhdanov.
(d) Yezhov.

4. Whom does Ginzburg finally meet face-to-face?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mysterious "angel."
(c) Marianovitch.
(d) Olga.

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

6. What do most of the women receive for sentences?
(a) 5-8 years.
(b) 10-15 years.
(c) 20-30 years.
(d) 1-4 years.

7. What does Maria Nimtsevitskaya give Ginzburg?
(a) A new pair of shoes.
(b) A wool jacket.
(c) A letter from Ginzburg's husband.
(d) A bottle of multi-vitamins.

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

9. How are the sections divided up at the transfer camp?
(a) By region.
(b) By crimes.
(c) By age.
(d) By gender.

10. What happens to what they see?
(a) A hawk grabs it.
(b) A guard kills it.
(c) A guard destroys it.
(d) It falls through the drain.

11. The women are sent from the prison _______________.
(a) To their homes.
(b) To a holding area.
(c) To the train station.
(d) To board a line of trucks.

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

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

14. To whom does Ginzburg write?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her mother-in-law.
(c) Her lawyer.
(d) Her mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?

3. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?

4. What are Ginzburg and the other prisoners no longer permitted to do?

5. To which hut is Ginzburg assigned after leaving the infirmary?

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