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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Pickwick?
(a) The new prison Governor.
(b) A kind, elderly guard.
(c) A new prisoner.
(d) The doctor who treats Julia and Ginzburg.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who puts on a show for the camp?
(a) No one.
(b) Soviets in the nearby town.
(c) Prisoners in Hut 7.
(d) Prisoners in Ginzburg's hut.

8. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?
(a) She gets sick from breathing the moldy air.
(b) She gets bad shin splints from the stone floor.
(c) She slips on the stone.
(d) She is told it is forbidden.

9. Who is the latest of the higher members of the Party to be imprisoned?
(a) Zhdanov.
(b) Yezhov.
(c) Bukharin.
(d) Tukhachevsky.

10. 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.

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

12. About what does Julia become optimistic?
(a) Her husband would get permission to visit her.
(b) The new prison Governor would be more benevolent.
(c) She and Ginzburg would be transferred to a more humane prison.
(d) They would be released soon.

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

14. What strikes Ginzburg when talking with Tulub?
(a) Tulub still believes in the greater good of Communism.
(b) Tulub has such a strong faith in a god force.
(c) Tulub is so optimistic despite everything she's been through.
(d) Ginzburg feels that Ginzburg's life story Ginzburg is telling is someone else's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ginzburg eat bread and a pound of sugar?

2. Whom does Ginzburg have in mind as she is writing her memoirs?

3. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?

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

5. When is Ginzburg freed?

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