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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do the female prisoners disagree?
(a) The need for purges.
(b) Stalin.
(c) The need to "behave."
(d) The innate goodness of humanity.

2. What is familiar about the journey the women are making?
(a) It still has searches, meal routines and ration stops.
(b) They have fairly decent food.
(c) There's good medical care.
(d) They are each given two sets of good clothing.

3. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?
(a) The prospect of vindication.
(b) The prospect of better conditions in the prison.
(c) The Soviet system.
(d) The prospects of an early release.

4. What news does "Northern Worker" carry?
(a) News of Lenin's son's death.
(b) Purge in the Party's ranks.
(c) Stalin's grave illness.
(d) Lenin's widow's death.

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

6. What helps Ginzburg sleep?
(a) Singing.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Composing mental poetry.
(d) Praying.

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

8. Who is the latest of the higher members of the Party to be imprisoned?
(a) Zhdanov.
(b) Bukharin.
(c) Yezhov.
(d) Tukhachevsky.

9. What are Ginzburg and the other prisoners no longer permitted to do?
(a) Anything alone.
(b) Talk among themselves.
(c) Write anything down.
(d) Sing.

10. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) They are allowed weekly visitors.
(b) The library is reopened.
(c) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.
(d) They are allowed monthly visitors.

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

12. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?
(a) The woman who receives the shortest sentence.
(b) The only woman who receives a fifteen year sentence.
(c) The only woman who is acquitted.
(d) The only other woman who receives a ten-year sentence.

13. What are Ginzburg to be allowed to do?
(a) Work in the Governor's home.
(b) Work in the prison library.
(c) Work in the prison kitchen.
(d) Go outside every day.

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

15. Who is Yezhov?
(a) A close advisor to Stalin.
(b) A Party organizer.
(c) The new prison Governor.
(d) The former Commissar-General.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?

2. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?

3. What happens when Ginzburg and Karepova are put in a cell together?

4. To which hut is Ginzburg assigned after leaving the infirmary?

5. When is Ginzburg freed?

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