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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. When is Ginzburg freed?
2. What does Kucherenko demand?
3. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?
4. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?
5. Why do the prisoners want the guards to open windows and other sources of fresh air?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ginzburg offer an act of forgiveness for the man who labeled Ginzburg a terrorist?
2. Why is Ginzburg taken to see Nabob and what happens?
3. How do Ginzburg and her mother write letters to each other in code and what is an example of one such letter?
4. How old is Ginzburg when she is writing this book and what does she find difficult to believe?
5. What does Dr. Pickwick insist upon in treating Julia and Ginzburg?
6. What small joy do Ginzburg and the other prisoners enjoy when the Black Maria is late?
7. What solution do Julia and Ginzburg find to reading in low light?
8. What happens when Ginzburg is having a conversation with Zinaida Tulub?
9. About what do the female prisoners disagree during their discussions on the train ride?
10. What new rule is forced upon the prisoners and how do they react to the restriction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The train ride is especially telling of the life that the women are about to be plunged into. It also reveals a host of ideas and differences among the women with respect to Communism, Stalin, and themselves. A few fanatical women believe Stalin is innocent of the evil of his subordinates; others have come to hate the entire system. But just as their political differences threaten to pull them apart, they decide to band together and look out for each other as best they can.
1. Discuss the reasons some women might still hold to the idea that Stalin himself was not personally responsible for what was going on. Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
2. What do you think can happen to a system of government if a majority of its citizens begin to hate the system? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
3. How do you think the women were able to set aside political differences to help each other and what does that imply for other groups of people in the world? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Choose one of the following to discuss:
1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Journey Into the Whirlwind. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Ginzburg chooses the symbols he does?
2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the memoir. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Ginzburg chooses the metaphors she does?
3. Discuss Ginzburg's use (or lack ) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, clifthangers, deux ex machina, etc.), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Ginzburg use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, theme).
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