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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 33, Five Steps by Three | Part I, Chapter 34, Major Weinstock's Twenty-Two Commandments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.
(b) It has not been wound since she entered prison.
(c) Its battery is run down.
(d) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.

2. Who is Milda?
(a) One of the female guards.
(b) An elderly Latvian woman.
(c) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.
(d) A young, German opera singer.

3. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Three.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) One.

4. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.
(b) They are recorded inacurrately.
(c) They put her family in a collaborative position.
(d) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.

5. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?
(a) Tries to kill herself.
(b) Curses Stalin.
(c) Denounces her husband.
(d) Denounces Yaroslavsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?

2. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?

3. What does Ginzburg say is at the base of the walls in her cell?

4. Who is Yefrem?

5. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?

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