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

2. What are the women happy to do?
(a) Share what they each have.
(b) Clean up the prison grounds for a chance to be outside.
(c) Help cut each other's hair.
(d) Cook meals in the kitchen after the cook dies.

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

4. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
(a) To receive letters from home.
(b) To take baths.
(c) To help care for the patients.
(d) To eat better.

5. What does Ginzburg hear in the hall as her visitor leaves?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Ginzburg and Julia wonder?

2. What is done over the next three days?

3. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?

4. About what is Ginzburg happy even after her horrible experiences?

5. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old is Ginzburg when she is writing this book and what does she find difficult to believe?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Ginzburg compare Kostik to Keyzin?

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

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