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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 do the two women continue to hide?
(a) Their writings.
(b) Fish bones and medicine.
(c) Notes from other prisoners.
(d) Letters smuggled into them from their families.

2. For how long is Ginzburg at Yaroslavl?
(a) A little over two years.
(b) About a year.
(c) Her entire prison sentence.
(d) Just a couple months.

3. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?
(a) A woman who did so is executed.
(b) She might have received a longer sentence.
(c) When Stalin is out of power, she might have been ostracized.
(d) She might have been sent to a worse prison.

4. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?
(a) Getting ready to execute a prisoner.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) Hosing a prisoner down with freezing water.
(d) Forcing a prisoner to eat.

5. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?
(a) The interrogations stop.
(b) Ginzburg is made to stay awake.
(c) Ginzburg is shown her son being interrogated.
(d) Ginzburg is physically abused.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?

3. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?

4. Who is Alyosha?

5. Where did Lyama's family work?

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