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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. Who is Pickwick?
(a) The new prison Governor.
(b) The doctor who treats Julia and Ginzburg.
(c) A new prisoner.
(d) A kind, elderly guard.

2. What do most of the women receive for sentences?
(a) 20-30 years.
(b) 10-15 years.
(c) 5-8 years.
(d) 1-4 years.

3. What does Ginzburg learn at the end of June?
(a) Her husband has been released.
(b) Her father has died.
(c) Her son has left the Soviet Union.
(d) Her mother had died.

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

5. Why do the prisoners want the guards to open windows and other sources of fresh air?
(a) Fresh air is the only thing that reminds the prisoners of the outside.
(b) The cells are beginning to have a lot of mold in them.
(c) There is a contagious flu going around.
(d) There is smoke in the cell blocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?

2. What does Ginzburg think they are doing that is causing the screaming?

3. Why does Ginzburg hide the fact that she is ill?

4. What is done over the next three days?

5. What language does Ginzburg know that helps her get an easier assignment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ginzburg waken one day to find Krivitsky standing over her?

2. About what do the female prisoners disagree during their discussions on the train ride?

3. What happens when Ginzburg is having a conversation with Zinaida Tulub?

4. What happens that causes Julia and Ginzburg to eat their hoarded supply of sugar and bread?

5. What happens when the Prison Governor comes to visit Ginzburg?

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

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

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

9. What range of sentences are the women whom Ginzburg meets given, and why does Ginzburg consider herself lucky?

10. What solution do Julia and Ginzburg find to reading in low light?

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