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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 does Vasily Petukhov notice when he sees Ginzburg?
(a) She should already have been realeased.
(b) She never cries out when he beats her.
(c) She is able to read and write fluently.
(d) She resembles her son.

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

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

4. From where is Tulub?
(a) The Ukraine.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Slovakia.
(d) Minsk.

5. What does Petukhov vow?
(a) No prisoner will ever be released.
(b) Ginzburg will survive her prison term.
(c) He will get Ginzburg out on early release.
(d) He will harass Ginzburg until she cries out.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?

2. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?

3. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?

4. To which hut is Ginzburg assigned after leaving the infirmary?

5. What does Maria Nimtsevitskaya give Ginzburg?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What routine do Julia and Ginzburg maintain?

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

10. Who is Marya Dogadkina and how is she described?

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