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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 13, The Investigators Have Conclusive Evidence | Part I, Chapter 14, Stick and Carrot.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Lyama Shepel?
(a) Ginzburg's family servant.
(b) Ginzburg's cell mate.
(c) One of the interrogators.
(d) A cook at the prison.

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

4. 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 must submit a vociferously-worded condemnation of Trotsky.
(d) Ginzburg is told she can give no more public lectures for two years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?

2. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

3. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?

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

5. To what series of books has Elvov contributed an article?

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