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

2. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?
(a) She might get an even harsher sentence.
(b) She might be shot.
(c) She could make things even more difficult for herself or loved ones.
(d) Her mother might become hysterical.

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

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

5. What does Tsarevsky say about Elvov?
(a) He has killed himself.
(b) He has confessed against Ginzburg.
(c) He has said Ginzburg contacted him about killing another party member.
(d) He has confessed to participating in a plot against Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

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

3. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?

4. Who summons Ginzburg?

5. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?

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