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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Polina Melnikova explain to the new prisoners?
(a) How to stay warm in the cold.
(b) How to cheat the quota system.
(c) How to make ice shelters.
(d) How to find trees that have a weakness and can be cut more easily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where is Ginzburg sent to work?
(a) Mines.
(b) Quarries.
(c) Farm fields.
(d) Weaving coop.

9. How old is Ginzburg when she is writing this book?
(a) 60s.
(b) 70s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 40s.

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

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

12. What is Elgen like compared to Kolyma?
(a) The work is much easier.
(b) Much worse.
(c) It is very small in comparison.
(d) About the same.

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

14. What is the Italian woman doing?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Praying the rosary.
(c) Singing.
(d) Moaning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?

2. What do most of the women receive for sentences?

3. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?

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

5. What has Julia been saving?

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