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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 happens to what they see?
(a) A hawk grabs it.
(b) It falls through the drain.
(c) A guard destroys it.
(d) A guard kills it.

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

3. From where is Tulub?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Slovakia.
(d) The Ukraine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Zinaida Tulub?

2. Who is Vasily Petukhov?

3. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?

4. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?

5. To whom does Ginzburg write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that causes Julia and Ginzburg to eat their hoarded supply of sugar and bread?

2. What happens when the prisoners are held in a transfer camp?

3. Upon what does Ginzburg reflect when she hears that Lenin's widow has died?

4. What happens when Ginzburg is having a conversation with Zinaida Tulub?

5. What happens when Ginzburg is taken to Magadan Infirmary?

6. How do Ginzburg and her mother write letters to each other in code and what is an example of one such letter?

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

8. What routine do Julia and Ginzburg maintain?

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

10. What small joy do Ginzburg and the other prisoners enjoy when the Black Maria is late?

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