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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 21, Orphans Twice Over | Part I, Chapter 22, Tukhachevsky and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Vevers described?
(a) Warm.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Kind.
(d) Cold and calculating.

2. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?
(a) One of her former students whoi s the head of the committee.
(b) Her friends who are caught in their own false accusations.
(c) Ginzburg's third cousin who must pronounce the judgement.
(d) Ginzburg's favorite mentor.

3. What does Vevers use frequently?
(a) LSD.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cocaine.

4. What does Ginzburg want to prove?
(a) Stalin is mentally unstable.
(b) Stalin is going to far.
(c) She is innocent.
(d) Gossip is not truth.

5. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?
(a) He is unable to help her identify two anonymous Stalin spies.
(b) He is inaccurate in a quote from her.
(c) Her association with him may be costly to her.
(d) He misunderstood one of her articles and cut it from the series.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?

2. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?

3. What does Ginzburg call her mother-in-law?

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

5. Where did Lyama's family work?

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