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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Ginzburg say is at the base of the walls in her cell?
(a) Names and dates sculpted on the stone.
(b) Mementos of previous prisoners.
(c) Blood stains.
(d) Mold.
2. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?
(a) She slips on the stone.
(b) She gets bad shin splints from the stone floor.
(c) She gets sick from breathing the moldy air.
(d) She is told it is forbidden.
3. From where is Tulub?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Slovakia.
(d) The Ukraine.
4. Who comes to see Ginzburg?
(a) The prison governor.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The prison physician.
(d) Her mother.
5. How long do Ginzburg's parents spend in prison?
(a) Almost a year.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two years.
6. Who is Zinaida Tulub?
(a) An historical novelist.
(b) A physicist.
(c) A biologist.
(d) A physician.
7. What happens when Ginzburg and Karepova are put in a cell together?
(a) They plot ways to escape.
(b) They ration their speaking so as not to run out of things to say.
(c) They talk for hours on end at end.
(d) They blame each other for being a turncoat.
8. What strikes Ginzburg when talking with Tulub?
(a) Tulub still believes in the greater good of Communism.
(b) Tulub is so optimistic despite everything she's been through.
(c) Tulub has such a strong faith in a god force.
(d) Ginzburg feels that Ginzburg's life story Ginzburg is telling is someone else's.
9. What is done over the next three days?
(a) Indoctrination begins.
(b) Medical inspections.
(c) Good food is distributed.
(d) Re-trials for some prisoners.
10. Who is Pickwick?
(a) The doctor who treats Julia and Ginzburg.
(b) The new prison Governor.
(c) A kind, elderly guard.
(d) A new prisoner.
11. Whom does Ginzburg finally meet face-to-face?
(a) Her mysterious "angel."
(b) Marianovitch.
(c) Olga.
(d) Her husband.
12. What are Ginzburg and the other prisoners no longer permitted to do?
(a) Write anything down.
(b) Sing.
(c) Anything alone.
(d) Talk among themselves.
13. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) They are allowed weekly visitors.
(b) They are allowed monthly visitors.
(c) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.
(d) The library is reopened.
14. Who does Ginzburg believe are dying off or being killed?
(a) All her friends.
(b) Most of the original Party founders.
(c) Most of the men and women who have college degrees.
(d) Older, decent people.
15. What is Elgen like compared to Kolyma?
(a) Much worse.
(b) The work is much easier.
(c) About the same.
(d) It is very small in comparison.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ginzburg characterize the last group of women brought on board the ship?
2. What has Julia been saving?
3. What does Vasily Petukhov notice when he sees Ginzburg?
4. What does Nabob sentence Ginzburg to do?
5. The women are sent from the prison _______________.
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