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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 does Kucherenko demand?
2. What is Elgen like compared to Kolyma?
3. How old is Ginzburg when she is writing this book?
4. What does Ginzburg learn at the end of June?
5. What makes Tanya Stankovskaya happy?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What happens when the Prison Governor comes to visit Ginzburg?
3. What does Ginzburg learn about her father and how does this seem to cause unwarranted punishment?
4. What happens when Julia and Ginzburg see a flower in the courtyard?
5. What happens that causes Julia and Ginzburg to eat their hoarded supply of sugar and bread?
6. Why does Vasily Petukhov decide to help Ginzburg survive?
7. What are some of the rules Ginzburg mentions as being cited on a paper hanging on the wall?
8. What solution do Julia and Ginzburg find to reading in low light?
9. What is Julia determined to do and what does she save for the day?
10. How do Ginzburg and her mother write letters to each other in code and what is an example of one such letter?
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
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Journey Into the Whirlwind is? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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