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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 1, Car Number 7 | Part II, Chapter 2, All Sorts to Make a World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?
(a) Ginzburg must submit a vociferously-worded condemnation of Trotsky.
(b) Ginzburg's status is lowered at the University.
(c) Ginzbug is reprimanded, but it is later canceled.
(d) Ginzburg is told she can give no more public lectures for two years.

2. What is crawling with insects?
(a) The halls and cells.
(b) The slop pails.
(c) Bad sugar Ginzburg bought from the prison commissary.
(d) The underground cell.

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

4. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
(a) It is Ginzburg's last day to teach.
(b) It is the day Ginzburg was imprisoned.
(c) It is Ginzburg's wedding anniversary day.
(d) It is Ginzburg's birthday.

5. Why is Ginzburg happy after her trial?
(a) She is not to be executed.
(b) She receives three years but is allowed to serve in her home town.
(c) She is only given two years.
(d) She is released for time served.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?

3. What strikes Ginzburg when talking with Tulub?

4. Why is Ginzburg sent home?

5. What do the two women continue to hide?

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