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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 39, Next Year in Jerusalem | Part I, Chapter 40, Day after Day, Month after Month.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lack enable?
(a) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.
(b) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.
(c) Scurvy and other diseases.
(d) Prisoners to communicate freely.

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

3. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Home.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Krasin Street Prison.

4. Who is Zinaida Abramova?
(a) A torturer.
(b) A person placed in the prison as a spy.
(c) An old friend of Ginzburg's.
(d) The wife of the prime minister of Tartary.

5. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?
(a) Screams from torturing going on.
(b) Old pipes rattling.
(c) The rats gnawing on the pallets.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

2. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?

3. Why does Ginzburg try to clean up herself?

4. How is Julia and Ginzburg's existence described?

5. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?

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