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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 9, Salvation from Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Ginzburg sent to work?
(a) Quarries.
(b) Farm fields.
(c) Mines.
(d) Weaving coop.

3. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?
(a) An illiterate peasant.
(b) An angel.
(c) A devil.
(d) A pleasant but incompetent supervisor.

4. What does Natasha reveal about the Gestapo?
(a) They are in league with Stalin's secret police.
(b) They are actually more humane than the Communists.
(c) She worked for the Gestapo before coming to this prison.
(d) They have the same forms of torture as the Communists.

5. What does Vasily Petukhov notice when he sees Ginzburg?
(a) She should already have been realeased.
(b) She resembles her son.
(c) She is able to read and write fluently.
(d) She never cries out when he beats her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?

2. What are Ginzburg and the other prisoners no longer permitted to do?

3. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?

4. To whom does Ginzburg write?

5. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

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