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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 9, Expelled from the Party | Part I, Chapter 10, That Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Alyosha?
(a) Ginzburg's oldest son.
(b) Ginzburg's brother who disappears.
(c) The judge that sentences Ginzburg.
(d) Ginzburg's best friend who disappears.

4. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?
(a) To humble herself.
(b) To go far away.
(c) To ask her husband to denounce her.
(d) To ask her friends to give her their endorsements.

5. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?
(a) Full of errors.
(b) Very accurate.
(c) Trotsykyist.
(d) Minimalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

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

3. How does Ginzburg defend herself?

4. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?

5. What does Ginzburg's husband advise against her doing?

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