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Journey Into the Whirlwind Quiz

Yevgenia Ginzburg

This Study Guide consists of approximately 45 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Journey Into the Whirlwind.

Journey Into the Whirlwind by Yevgenia Ginzburg

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Part I, Chapter 1, A Telephone Call at Dawn

Part I, Chapter 2, The Red-Haired Professor

Part I, Chapter 3, Prelude

Part I, Chapter 4, Snowball

Part I, Chapter 5, There's No One So Silly as a Clever Man

Part I, Chapter 6, My Last Year

Part I, Chapter 7, Life Counted in Minutes

Part I, Chapter 8, The Year 1937 Begins

Part I, Chapter 9, Expelled from the Party

Part I, Chapter 10, That Day

Part I, Chapter 11, Captain Vevers

Part I, Chapter 12, The Cellars at Black Lake

Part I, Chapter 13, The Investigators Have Conclusive Evidence

Part I, Chapter 14, Stick and Carrot

Part I, Chapter 15, The Walls Come to Life

Part I, Chapter 16, Can You Forgive Me

Part I, Chapter 17, The Conveyor Belt

Part I, Chapter 18, Confrontations

Part I, Chapter 19, Parting

Part I, Chapter 20, New Encounters

Part I, Chapter 21, Orphans Twice Over

Part I, Chapter 22, Tukhachevsky and Others

Part I, Chapter 23, To Moscow

Part I, Chapter 24, Transfer

Part I, Chapter 25, Introduction to Butyrki

Part I, Chapter 26, The Whole of the Comintern

Part I, Chapter 27, Butyrki Nights

Part I, Chapter 28, In Accordance with the Law of December 1st

Part I, Chapter 29, A Fair and Speedy Trial

Part I, Chapter 30, Penal Servitude -What Bliss!

Part I, Chapter 31, The Pugachev Tower

Part I, Chapter 32, The Stolypin Coach

Part I, Chapter 33, Five Steps by Three

Part I, Chapter 34, Major Weinstock's Twenty-Two Commandments

Part I, Chapter 35, Bright Nights and Dark Days

Part I, Chapter 36, Captain Glan's Dog

Part I, Chapter 37, The Underground Punishment Cell

Part I, Chapter 38, Comunista Italiana

Part I, Chapter 39, Next Year in Jerusalem

Part I, Chapter 40, Day after Day, Month after Month

Part I, Chapter 41, A Breath of Oxygen

Part I, Chapter 42, A Fire in Prison

Part I, Chapter 43, Punishment Cell for the Second Time

Part I, Chapter 44, Memories of Giorano Bruno

Part I, Chapter 45, The End of the Monstrous Dwarf

Part I, Chapter 46, Great Expectations

Part I, Chapter 47, A Bathhouse! Just an Ordinary Bathhouse!

Part I, Chapter 48, The Ruins of Sclusselburg

Part II, Chapter 1, Car Number 7

Part II, Chapter 2, All Sorts to Make a World

Part II, Chapter 3, The Transit Camp

Part II, Chapter 4, The S.S. Dzhurma

Part II, Chapter 5, No Luck Today, My Lady Death!

Part II, Chapter 6, Light Work

Part II, Chapter 7, Elgen is the Yakut Word for Dead

Part II, Chapter 8, Tree-Felling

Part II, Chapter 9, Salvation from Heaven

Part II, Epilogue

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What can Ginzburg not believe in reflecting upon what has happened to herself and others? (from Part II, Epilogue)

She survived the horrors.

It really could happen.

She meets so many people who went through the same things she did.

More people didn't die in the terrible conditions.

2.

What does Lydia tell Ginzburg that God does? (from Part I, Chapter 21, Orphans Twice Over)

Punishes wicked doers.

Watches over fatherless children.

Exacts vengeance.

Triumphs in the end.

3.

Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything? (from Part I, Chapter 31, The Pugachev Tower)

When Stalin is out of power, she might have been ostracized.

She might have received a longer sentence.

She might have been sent to a worse prison.

A woman who did so is executed.

4.

How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina? (from Part II, Chapter 7, Elgen is the Yakut Word for Dead)

A devil.

An angel.

A pleasant but incompetent supervisor.

An illiterate peasant.

5.

What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs? (from Part I, Chapter 27, Butyrki Nights)

She is shot.

The entire cell block erupts in laughter.

She is put in solitary confinement.

She is whipped.

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