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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?
(a) As innocent peasants.
(b) As true criminals.
(c) As those suffering for their religious beliefs.
(d) As hardened labor camp refugees.

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

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

4. What are the prisoners told to do before being transferred?
(a) To wash and pair off.
(b) To write and let their families know they are being transferred.
(c) To leave all their possessions behind in their cells.
(d) To submit to a lice examination.

5. Who is Vasily Petukhov?
(a) A doctor from Leningrad.
(b) The new prison camp director.
(c) A lawyer from Moscow.
(d) A guard who often whips prisoners.

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

7. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?
(a) A woman who did so is executed.
(b) She might have been sent to a worse prison.
(c) She might have received a longer sentence.
(d) When Stalin is out of power, she might have been ostracized.

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

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

10. What does Ginzburg hear in the hall as her visitor leaves?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Singing.
(d) Screaming.

11. What does Ginzburg write?
(a) A chapbook of poetry.
(b) An appeal to the head of the Politburo.
(c) A treatise on the abuses of the Soviet system.
(d) A novel about her childhood.

12. What is Julia determined to see?
(a) Her children grow up.
(b) Her husband again.
(c) The New Year.
(d) Her grandchildren again.

13. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

14. Who comes to see Ginzburg?
(a) The prison governor.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The prison physician.

15. In what month and year are Ginzburg and the others transferred?
(a) November, 1939.
(b) May, 1937.
(c) July, 1939.
(d) July, 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?

2. About what is Ginzburg happy even after her horrible experiences?

3. What happens to what they see?

4. Who is Angelina Klimenko?

5. What is interesting about the prison library?

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