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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women become proficient at during the day?
(a) Sleeping in a sitting position.
(b) Convincing the guards to give them more priviledges.
(c) Communicating with other prisoners.
(d) Maximizing their exercise time.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?
(a) So the guards can hose down the cells.
(b) So the other prisoners do not hear them complain.
(c) So they can get some Vitamin D from the sunshine.
(d) So the guards can contain the fire.

8. When is the worse time for Ginzburg at the prison?
(a) As she is told to go back inside after being out.
(b) The house after supper before sleep.
(c) Upon waking.
(d) When it is pitch black at night.

9. What helps Ginzburg sleep?
(a) Praying.
(b) Composing mental poetry.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Singing.

10. What news does "Northern Worker" carry?
(a) Purge in the Party's ranks.
(b) Stalin's grave illness.
(c) News of Lenin's son's death.
(d) Lenin's widow's death.

11. To whom does Ginzburg write?
(a) Her mother-in-law.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her lawyer.

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

13. What makes Tanya Stankovskaya happy?
(a) Seeing her husband among the prisoners.
(b) Being given a release.
(c) Having a bunk on the train.
(d) Receiving a long letter from her children.

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

15. What are Ginzburg and the other prisoners no longer permitted to do?
(a) Write anything down.
(b) Sing.
(c) Anything alone.
(d) Talk among themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ginzburg sent to work?

2. In what format does Ginzburg write her memoir about her prison experiences?

3. For how long is Ginzburg at Yaroslavl?

4. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?

5. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?

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