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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 might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?

2. How does Ginzburg defend herself?

3. What is returned to Ginzburg?

4. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

5. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginzburg discover about the charges against her as she is traveling back to Moscow?

2. How is Ginzburg's situation changed on Red Army Day?

3. Who is Secretary Abdullin and what does he ask of Ginzburg?

4. What happens on February 7, 1937, and why is one of Ginzburg's former students in particular agony about it?

5. Where is Ginzburg taken and what does she remember after seeing the place?

6. Who is Garey Sagidullin and what does Ginzburg learn from him?

7. Describe the situation that occurs concerning Carola Heintschke.

8. To where is Ginzburg's case referred, and what is significant about that fact?

9. What is the "Conveyor Belt" interrogation method and how is it used on Ginzburg?

10. Describe Captain Vevers' behavior to Ginzburg.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Eugenia Ginzburg.

2. What in Ginzburg's background may have helped her in writing Journey Into the Whirlwind? What may have influenced the way she depicts various people and scenes?

3. Do you think all of the events in a memoir are true? Why or why not? Give examples.

4. How is a memoir affected by memory? Is every memory a person has strictly accurate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Journey Into the Whirlwind belongs to the memoir genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the memoir genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a memoir and a historical novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful memoir?

2. Analyze and discuss Journey Into the Whirlwind based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Journey Into the Whirlwind is a successful memoir.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful memoir should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Journey Into the Whirlwind a successful memoir? What about young teens?

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