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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 Elgen like compared to Kolyma?
(a) The work is much easier.
(b) Much worse.
(c) About the same.
(d) It is very small in comparison.

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

3. How long do Ginzburg's parents spend in prison?
(a) Two months.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Almost a year.

4. What does Kucherenko demand?
(a) The prisoners be given better clothing.
(b) The work quotas be raised.
(c) The work quotas be lowered.
(d) The women be given lighter duty.

5. About what is Ginzburg happy even after her horrible experiences?
(a) True Commuinsts are in power.
(b) She met so many wonderful people.
(c) She finds her husband alive and waiting for when she is released.
(d) Her mother was still alive when Ginzburg is released.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Julia and Ginzburg's existence described?

2. Who is Vasily Petukhov?

3. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?

4. Who comes to see Ginzburg?

5. What does Ginzburg learn at the end of June?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gives the prisoners a moment of happiness and how do they share their goods?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Ginzburg say about the ongoing political purges and how do some of the prisoners view the likely incarceration of some of those fallen under the most recent purges?

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

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

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

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