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

2. When is Ginzburg freed?
(a) About three years after arriving at Elgen.
(b) About six months after arriving at Elgen.
(c) After Stalin's death.
(d) When she is almost seventy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?

2. The women are sent from the prison _______________.

3. What language does Ginzburg know that helps her get an easier assignment?

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

5. What is done over the next three days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What routine do Julia and Ginzburg maintain?

5. What is it like for Ginzburg in her cell at the prison?

6. What happens when Julia and Ginzburg see a flower in the courtyard?

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

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

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

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

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