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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?
2. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
3. What do Ginzburg, Rimma, Ira and Julia discover?
4. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
5. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ira ask Tsarevsky to do as she and others are being transferred and what does his willingness to do so portend?
2. How is Ginzburg's situation changed on Red Army Day?
3. What does Alexandra Alexandrovna advise Ginzburg?
4. What is mentioned about the Red Tatary and why does Ginzburg threaten one prisoner in French?
5. What do Ginzburg and her husband decide to do for the school holidays and what does she say about the people who are at the same vacation spot?
6. Who summons Ginzburg after Elvov's arrest; what do they want with her, and how does she respond?
7. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?
8. How do the prisoners communicate in Krasin, and what disturbing piece of news does Ginzburg receive in one such communication?
9. What does one prisoner do and others follow that breaks up the horror of their situation momentarily?
10. Who is Secretary Abdullin and what does he ask of Ginzburg?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Journey Into the Whirlwind.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Journey Into the Whirlwind. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Journey Into the Whirlwind. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 2
People are an important part of what makes Journey Into the Whirlwind interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Eugenia Ginzburg. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Stalin. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Julia. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Grandmother warns Ginzburg that a trap is being set for her, and that she should go as far away as she possibly can. But Ginzburg wants to prove her innocence, and her husband dismisses the idea of leaving. Ginzburg recounts that some intelligent people did indeed escape Communist oppression by slipping away to distant places. But Ginzburg admits she was not one of them.
1. Why do you think Ginzburg felt so strongly about proving her innocence? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
2. Discuss how you think someone like Ginzburg might feel about her decision to not leave by the end of her ordeal. Do you think she may have regretted not leaving? Why or why not? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
3. Discuss what it might imply about a person to know that a trap by an oppressive government might be set for her and still not take steps to avoid the trap. Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
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