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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 Julia determined to see?
(a) Her grandchildren again.
(b) The New Year.
(c) Her children grow up.
(d) Her husband again.

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

3. What can Ginzburg not believe in reflecting upon what has happened to herself and others?
(a) She survived the horrors.
(b) It really could happen.
(c) She meets so many people who went through the same things she did.
(d) More people didn't die in the terrible conditions.

4. In what month and year are Ginzburg and the others transferred?
(a) November, 1939.
(b) July, 1936.
(c) May, 1937.
(d) July, 1939.

5. What is familiar about the journey the women are making?
(a) They have fairly decent food.
(b) There's good medical care.
(c) They are each given two sets of good clothing.
(d) It still has searches, meal routines and ration stops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ginzburg eat bread and a pound of sugar?

2. What do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?

3. When is Ginzburg freed?

4. How are the sections divided up at the transfer camp?

5. What is interesting about the prison library?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When is Ginzburg freed and what does she persist in believing in despite her life in prison?

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

8. What solution do Julia and Ginzburg find to reading in low light?

9. How does Ginzburg offer an act of forgiveness for the man who labeled Ginzburg a terrorist?

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

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