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

2. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?
(a) As hardened labor camp refugees.
(b) As true criminals.
(c) As innocent peasants.
(d) As those suffering for their religious beliefs.

3. About what do the female prisoners disagree?
(a) Stalin.
(b) The need to "behave."
(c) The innate goodness of humanity.
(d) The need for purges.

4. What is the Italian woman doing?
(a) Praying the rosary.
(b) Moaning.
(c) Singing.
(d) Screaming.

5. Whom does Ginzburg have in mind as she is writing her memoirs?
(a) Her granddaughter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandson.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is crawling with insects?

2. Who is Yezhov?

3. Who puts on a show for the camp?

4. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?

5. Who is Angelina Klimenko?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Dr. Pickwick insist upon in treating Julia and Ginzburg?

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

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

6. About what do the female prisoners disagree during their discussions on the train ride?

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

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

9. Who is Marya Dogadkina and how is she described?

10. What routine do Julia and Ginzburg maintain?

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