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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?
(a) Getting ready to execute a prisoner.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) Forcing a prisoner to eat.
(d) Hosing a prisoner down with freezing water.

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

5. Why do Ginzburg eat bread and a pound of sugar?
(a) They don't want it to burn up in the fire.
(b) They believe they are about to die.
(c) They have not been allowed to eat for several days.
(d) They have been cut to half rations.

6. Why does Ginzburg consider herself lucky as far as her sentence?
(a) She could have been given as much as "Grandma" Nastya received.
(b) The terrorist aspect of the charge was dropped or she might have received life.
(c) The communists had not started the mandatory twenty-five year sentences.
(d) She received less than her husband.

7. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) The library is reopened.
(b) They are allowed monthly visitors.
(c) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.
(d) They are allowed weekly visitors.

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

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

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

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

12. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
(a) To receive letters from home.
(b) To eat better.
(c) To take baths.
(d) To help care for the patients.

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

14. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?
(a) A devil.
(b) A pleasant but incompetent supervisor.
(c) An angel.
(d) An illiterate peasant.

15. What has Julia been saving?
(a) Her commissary coupons.
(b) Butter and sugar.
(c) All the letters from her husband.
(d) Her grandchildren's letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Ginzburg and the others put in punishment cells?

2. Why are the window fans in the cells shut off?

3. For how long is Ginzburg at Yaroslavl?

4. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?

5. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?

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