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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
(a) To receive letters from home.
(b) To eat better.
(c) To take baths.
(d) To help care for the patients.

4. Who is Vasily Petukhov?
(a) A doctor from Leningrad.
(b) The new prison camp director.
(c) A guard who often whips prisoners.
(d) A lawyer from Moscow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to what they see?

2. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?

3. To whom does Ginzburg write?

4. Who is "Grandma" Nastya?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vasily Petukhov decide to help Ginzburg survive?

2. When is Ginzburg freed and what does she persist in believing in despite her life in prison?

3. Who is Marya Dogadkina and how is she described?

4. What is it like for Ginzburg in her cell at the prison?

5. How does Ginzburg compare Kostik to Keyzin?

6. What happens when Julia and Ginzburg see a flower in the courtyard?

7. How does Ginzburg offer an act of forgiveness for the man who labeled Ginzburg a terrorist?

8. What does Dr. Pickwick insist upon in treating Julia and Ginzburg?

9. Who teaches the new prisoners how to fake their lumber quota?

10. How old is Ginzburg when she is writing this book and what does she find difficult to believe?

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