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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 does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?
(a) She needs to eat.
(b) Her son is still very ill.
(c) She is having an appeal filed.
(d) Her children are well.

2. Why does Ginzburg hide the fact that she is ill?
(a) She is not ill.
(b) She does not want to be separated from her friends.
(c) She is afraid she'll be executed.
(d) She is afraid of the incompetence of the physicians.

3. 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.

4. How is Julia and Ginzburg's existence described?
(a) Structured.
(b) Dismal.
(c) Bleak.
(d) Fairly comfortable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the latest of the higher members of the Party to be imprisoned?

2. About what does Julia become optimistic?

3. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?

4. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?

5. How does Ginzburg characterize Marya Dogadkina?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Upon what does Ginzburg reflect when she hears that Lenin's widow has died?

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

5. How do Ginzburg and her mother write letters to each other in code and what is an example of one such letter?

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

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

8. What small joy do Ginzburg and the other prisoners enjoy when the Black Maria is late?

9. What does Ginzburg learn about her father and how does this seem to cause unwarranted punishment?

10. Why is Ginzburg taken to see Nabob and what happens?

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