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

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

3. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They put her family in a collaborative position.
(b) They are recorded inacurrately.
(c) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.
(d) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.

4. What does Lydia tell Ginzburg that God does?
(a) Punishes wicked doers.
(b) Watches over fatherless children.
(c) Triumphs in the end.
(d) Exacts vengeance.

5. Who is Captain Vevers?
(a) The man who tries to be kind to Ginzburg in prison.
(b) The head of the secret police in Moscow.
(c) The man who forces the interrogator to be humane when questioning Ginzburg.
(d) The man who interrogates Ginzburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

2. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

3. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?

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

5. Who is Yefrem?

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