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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.
(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 no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.

2. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?
(a) To rat on other prisoners.
(b) To stop up her ears with cotton.
(c) To sing when she wakes in the morning.
(d) To teach her to read.

3. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?
(a) Ginzburg's favorite mentor.
(b) Ginzburg's third cousin who must pronounce the judgement.
(c) One of her former students whoi s the head of the committee.
(d) Her friends who are caught in their own false accusations.

4. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?
(a) In a courtyard with tents for shelter.
(b) In a bleak prison with stone walls.
(c) In a cellar.
(d) In a dormitory with other political offenders.

5. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?
(a) Abdullin.
(b) Lyama.
(c) Sagidullin.
(d) Yegereva.

6. What has Ginzburg heard is an indication she is about to be shot?
(a) The nicer the prison the more likely one is to die soon.
(b) She is made to sign papers that she is not allowed to read.
(c) She is given all her possesions back.
(d) She is put into a single cell with a real bed.

7. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) It has not been wound since she entered prison.
(b) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.
(c) Its battery is run down.
(d) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.

8. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?
(a) It is the anniversary of when she first started teaching.
(b) It is the anniversary of when her young son had died.
(c) She is no longer allowed to teach and it's the first day of school.
(d) It is the anniversary of when her young daughter had died.

9. What is the maximum penalty for the crimes with which Ginzburg is charged?
(a) 20 years.
(b) Life imprisonment.
(c) Death.
(d) 10 to 30 years.

10. For how long does this form of interrogation last?
(a) Several weeks.
(b) 7 days.
(c) A few hours.
(d) 3 days.

11. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?
(a) No one knows.
(b) The rats gnawing on the pallets.
(c) Screams from torturing going on.
(d) Old pipes rattling.

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

13. Who is Captain Vevers?
(a) The man who forces the interrogator to be humane when questioning Ginzburg.
(b) The head of the secret police in Moscow.
(c) The man who interrogates Ginzburg.
(d) The man who tries to be kind to Ginzburg in prison.

14. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?
(a) She criticizes them for their methods.
(b) She confesses to everything of which she is accused.
(c) She absolves her family in her crimes.
(d) She asks forgiveness from the party.

15. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
(a) Self-serving.
(b) Honest but flawed.
(c) They are conducted by incompetent judges.
(d) Corrupt and hypocritical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?

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

3. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?

4. What does the lack enable?

5. Why is Ginzburg summoned to a Party meeting?

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