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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. Who is Comrade Beylin?
(a) The new Chariman of the Bureau of Party Political Control.
(b) A doctor who gives Ginzburg a slip saying she was ill.
(c) Stalin's son-in-law and head of the Foreign Propaganda office.
(d) The head of the local GPU.

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

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

4. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?
(a) Teaching heresy.
(b) Inciting riots.
(c) Collaborating with the enemy.
(d) Conspiracy.

5. Why is Ginzburg summoned to a Party meeting?
(a) For having a book in her home that was published outside of Russia.
(b) For not denouncing Elvov.
(c) For failing to denouce Trotsky strenuously enough in a recent lecture.
(d) For missing two meetings in a row when she was ill.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?

4. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?

5. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?

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