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

3. What is different about the women in Hut 7?
(a) They have more freedom than the others.
(b) They are convicted murderesses.
(c) They are under the greatest restrictions.
(d) They are politically the highest group.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. To what task is Ginzburg assigned in Elgen?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Felling timber.
(c) Quarry work.
(d) Farming.

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

13. What do both Ginzburg and Julia wonder?
(a) If their children are suffering.
(b) If the new warden will be better.
(c) If they will make it out of prison alive.
(d) If their husbands are still alive.

14. To which hut is Ginzburg assigned after leaving the infirmary?
(a) 12.
(b) 21.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

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