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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

2. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?

3. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?

4. What does Ginzburg call her mother-in-law?

5. Why does Ginzburg pass out?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ginzburg's situation changed on Red Army Day?

2. Who is Ginzburg's first cellmate at Black Lake?

3. Who is Professor Elvov and how does he have bearing on Ginzburg's life?

4. What does Ginzburg discover about the charges against her as she is traveling back to Moscow?

5. Who is Zinaida Abramova and how is she treated at the prison?

6. Who is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg and why is she awakened early in the morning on December 1, 1934?

7. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

8. Why does Ginzburg think things have been straightened out and what happens to throw her back into the midst of the purge?

9. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?

10. To where is Ginzburg's case referred, and what is significant about that fact?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful memoir?

2. Analyze and discuss Journey Into the Whirlwind based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Journey Into the Whirlwind is a successful memoir.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful memoir should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Journey Into the Whirlwind a successful memoir? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 2

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think Journey Into the Whirlwind is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Journey Into the Whirlwind.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Journey Into the Whirlwind. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Journey Into the Whirlwind. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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