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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is interesting about the prison library?
(a) Each book is only allowed to be checked out one time for one day.
(b) There are copies of publicly-banned books.
(c) They are stocked with books about God.
(d) The books are all written by primarily English and American authors.

2. Who is Angelina Klimenko?
(a) A physician and the wife of a secret police investigator.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) A nurse who used to work in the fields as a peasant.
(d) A secret police investigator.

3. What are Ginzburg to be allowed to do?
(a) Work in the prison library.
(b) Work in the prison kitchen.
(c) Go outside every day.
(d) Work in the Governor's home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?

2. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?

3. What does Ginzburg hear in the hall as her visitor leaves?

4. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginzburg learn about her father and how does this seem to cause unwarranted punishment?

2. What are some of the rules Ginzburg mentions as being cited on a paper hanging on the wall?

3. What range of sentences are the women whom Ginzburg meets given, and why does Ginzburg consider herself lucky?

4. What is Julia determined to do and what does she save for the day?

5. Who teaches the new prisoners how to fake their lumber quota?

6. Why is Ginzburg taken to see Nabob and what happens?

7. Why does Ginzburg waken one day to find Krivitsky standing over her?

8. Why does Vasily Petukhov decide to help Ginzburg survive?

9. What happens when the Prison Governor comes to visit Ginzburg?

10. What new rule is forced upon the prisoners and how do they react to the restriction?

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