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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Yaroslavsky open the cell window to give Ginzburg?
(a) A book.
(b) A note from the woman in the cell next door.
(c) Words of encouragement.
(d) A letter.

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

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

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

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

8. 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 father has died.
(d) Her mother had died.

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

10. Whom does Ginzburg have in mind as she is writing her memoirs?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her granddaughter.
(d) Her grandson.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two women continue to hide?

2. How is Julia and Ginzburg's existence described?

3. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?

4. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?

5. Who is Pickwick?

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