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

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

4. Why does Ginzburg hide the fact that she is ill?
(a) She is afraid she'll be executed.
(b) She is not ill.
(c) She is afraid of the incompetence of the physicians.
(d) She does not want to be separated from her friends.

5. Where is Ginzburg assigned?
(a) To the kitchen crew.
(b) To the children's hospital.
(c) To the camp library.
(d) To the laundry rooms.

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

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

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

9. Who surrounds the women as they march to the camp?
(a) The countryside.
(b) Guards and dogs.
(c) Male prisoners.
(d) Peasant farmers.

10. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?
(a) The prospect of vindication.
(b) The prospects of an early release.
(c) The prospect of better conditions in the prison.
(d) The Soviet system.

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

12. Why are Ginzburg and the others put in punishment cells?
(a) They talk too much among themselves.
(b) They sing while working.
(c) They gripe about the cold.
(d) They are not cutting enough trees.

13. Who does Ginzburg believe are dying off or being killed?
(a) All her friends.
(b) Most of the original Party founders.
(c) Older, decent people.
(d) Most of the men and women who have college degrees.

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

15. To what does Ginzburg attribute her inability to distinguish one day from the next in the following year?
(a) The depressing atmosphere.
(b) Her instinct to survive.
(c) The lack of clean air and being ill.
(d) Her state of mind.