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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 do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?
(a) A flower.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

2. To what task is Ginzburg assigned in Elgen?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Felling timber.
(c) Farming.
(d) Quarry work.

3. When is the worse time for Ginzburg at the prison?
(a) When it is pitch black at night.
(b) As she is told to go back inside after being out.
(c) Upon waking.
(d) The house after supper before sleep.

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

5. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?
(a) Her children are well.
(b) Her son is still very ill.
(c) She is having an appeal filed.
(d) She needs to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Ginzburg and Julia wonder?

2. For how long is Ginzburg at Yaroslavl?

3. What does Maria Nimtsevitskaya give Ginzburg?

4. Why are the window fans in the cells shut off?

5. Who surrounds the women as they march to the camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Ginzburg waken one day to find Krivitsky standing over her?

3. Upon what does Ginzburg reflect when she hears that Lenin's widow has died?

4. What routine do Julia and Ginzburg maintain?

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

6. Who teaches the new prisoners how to fake their lumber quota?

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

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

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

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

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