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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. What does Petukhov vow?
2. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
3. What makes Tanya Stankovskaya happy?
4. Who surrounds the women as they march to the camp?
5. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dr. Pickwick insist upon in treating Julia and Ginzburg?
2. Why does Ginzburg waken one day to find Krivitsky standing over her?
3. What is it like for Ginzburg in her cell at the prison?
4. What are some of the rules Ginzburg mentions as being cited on a paper hanging on the wall?
5. Who teaches the new prisoners how to fake their lumber quota?
6. About what do the female prisoners disagree during their discussions on the train ride?
7. What happens that causes Julia and Ginzburg to eat their hoarded supply of sugar and bread?
8. Why does Vasily Petukhov decide to help Ginzburg survive?
9. What happens when Ginzburg is having a conversation with Zinaida Tulub?
10. What new rule is forced upon the prisoners and how do they react to the restriction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Eugenia Ginzburg.
2. What in Ginzburg's background may have helped her in writing Journey Into the Whirlwind? What may have influenced the way she depicts various people and scenes?
3. Do you think all of the events in a memoir are true? Why or why not? Give examples.
4. How is a memoir affected by memory? Is every memory a person has strictly accurate? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
There are a number of interesting questions raised by Journey Into the Whirlwind. Questions that Ginzburg most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Ginzburg' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Ginzburg' probable agenda concerning that idea.
2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface? Why or why not?
3. How often do you think memoir is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
4. Research the life of Ginzburg and see if/where her life may have influenced her writing.
Essay Topic 3
The train ride is especially telling of the life that the women are about to be plunged into. It also reveals a host of ideas and differences among the women with respect to Communism, Stalin, and themselves. A few fanatical women believe Stalin is innocent of the evil of his subordinates; others have come to hate the entire system. But just as their political differences threaten to pull them apart, they decide to band together and look out for each other as best they can.
1. Discuss the reasons some women might still hold to the idea that Stalin himself was not personally responsible for what was going on. Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
2. What do you think can happen to a system of government if a majority of its citizens begin to hate the system? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
3. How do you think the women were able to set aside political differences to help each other and what does that imply for other groups of people in the world? Use examples from Journey Into the Whirlwind and your own life to support your response.
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