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

2. What does the lack enable?
(a) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.
(b) Scurvy and other diseases.
(c) Prisoners to communicate freely.
(d) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.

3. Why is Nina in prison?
(a) For failing to denounce someone who denounces Stalin.
(b) Her brother denounced Stalin and Nina does not report him.
(c) Her boyfriend is in a conspiracy group.
(d) Her mother said negative things about Stalin.

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

5. Who is Yefrem?
(a) A driver of the Black Maria.
(b) A secret police guard.
(c) One of Ginzburg's former students.
(d) A man who offers the prisoners some food when the truck is stopped.