This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 17, The Conveyor Belt | Part I, Chapter 18, Confrontations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They are recorded inacurrately.
(b) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.
(c) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.
(d) They put her family in a collaborative position.

2. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
(a) She loves the Party more than she loves him.
(b) He was embezzling.
(c) He was going to make up lies about her involvement with Elvov.
(d) He beat her all the time.

3. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?
(a) Ginzburg blacks out.
(b) Ginzburg asks to speak to Elvov.
(c) Ginzburg confesses and signs what they want her to sign.
(d) A new prisoner takes their attention away from her.

4. To what does Ginzburg attribute her not signing anything that was false?
(a) The more brutal means of interrogations were not yet used.
(b) She had a spiritual strength.
(c) She wanted to be a good example for her children.
(d) She wanted to be a good example for other Party members who are falsely accused.

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