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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 45, The End of the Monstrous Dwarf | Part I, Chapter 46, Great Expectations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ginzburg try to clean up herself?
(a) Her mother is allowed to visit.
(b) Her husband is allowed to visit.
(c) Her defense lawyer is going to talk to her.
(d) Her trial will be soon.

2. How is Ginzburg's new prison described?
(a) Newly built.
(b) Clean and quiet.
(c) Noisy and filthy.
(d) Dirty.

3. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?
(a) To trim the party, which had stopped being such an elite organization.
(b) To kill off anyone that might challenge Stalin.
(c) There does not seem to be a reason for it.
(d) To get Stalin's cronies into all the important positions in the government.

4. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?
(a) A form of shorthand.
(b) Knocking on walls.
(c) Music.
(d) Number codes.

5. What do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?
(a) A flower.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to what they see?

2. Who is the latest of the higher members of the Party to be imprisoned?

3. About what does Julia become optimistic?

4. To what does Ginzburg attribute her inability to distinguish one day from the next in the following year?

5. Who is Garey Sagidullin?

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