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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 9, Expelled from the Party | Part I, Chapter 10, That Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?
(a) She is to go work on a communal farm and teach there.
(b) She is expelled from the Communist Party.
(c) She is to be executed.
(d) She is exonerated of all but three minor charges.

2. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.
(b) By saying that her lecture was not about Trotsky.
(c) By saying that Stalin's deputy of foreign affairs gave her the book.
(d) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.

3. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) She sets herself on fire.
(c) She drinks acid.
(d) She shoots herself.

4. To what series of books has Elvov contributed an article?
(a) A series on the famous writers of Russia.
(b) A series on the fall of Czar Nicholas II.
(c) A series on the history of the Communist Party.
(d) A series on the famous painters of Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginzburg want to prove?

2. Who is Comrade Beylin?

3. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?

4. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

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