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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 25, Introduction to Butyrki | Part I, Chapter 26, The Whole of the Comintern.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?
(a) Tukhachevsky.
(b) Her next-door-neighbor.
(c) Her brother.
(d) The son of her best friend.

2. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) To await her sentence.
(b) The charges against her were dropped.
(c) The charges were held in abeyance.
(d) To settle her personal affairs.

3. To where has Ginzburg's case been referred?
(a) The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
(b) Her case has been dismissed.
(c) Back to her home town council.
(d) The Military Intelligence branch of investigations.

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

5. In what year does Professor Elvov visit Ginzburg?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?

2. To what does Ginzburg attribute her not signing anything that was false?

3. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?

4. Why does Ginzburg pass out?

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

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