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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 21, Orphans Twice Over | Part I, Chapter 22, Tukhachevsky and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?
(a) Full of errors.
(b) Very accurate.
(c) Minimalism.
(d) Trotsykyist.

2. What does Ginzburg's husband advise against her doing?
(a) Defending her initial statements.
(b) Fighting the charges.
(c) Stopping to tell her mother goodbye.
(d) Publicly saying goodbye to her children.

3. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?
(a) Denouncing her best friend.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Forming a group to assassinate Stalin.
(d) Writing a condemnation of Trotsky.

4. What does Yaroslavsky do concening Ginzburg?
(a) Trumps up evidence against her.
(b) Hides evidence against her.
(c) Tries to help her to flee the country.
(d) Denounces her.

5. Why do many people believe they are safe from arrest?
(a) They are not active in politics.
(b) They are loyal party members.
(c) They teach in very remote areas.
(d) They have been given medals from Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?

2. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?

3. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?

4. To what does Ginzburg attribute her not signing anything that was false?

5. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?

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