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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 47, A Bathhouse! Just an Ordinary Bathhouse! | Part I, Chapter 48, The Ruins of Sclusselburg.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
(a) It is Ginzburg's wedding anniversary day.
(b) It is Ginzburg's last day to teach.
(c) It is the day Ginzburg was imprisoned.
(d) It is Ginzburg's birthday.

2. 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.

3. What news does Ginzburg get one day in a singing message?
(a) Her mother is dead.
(b) Her mother has been arrested.
(c) Her husband has been arrested.
(d) Her son is dead.

4. How long do Ginzburg's parents spend in prison?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two months.
(c) Almost a year.
(d) Five years.

5. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(b) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(c) The warden trips over a threshold.
(d) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?

3. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?

4. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?

5. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?

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