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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. How does Ginzburg describe Stalin?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Virile.
(c) Ugly and repulsive.
(d) Insane.

2. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?
(a) In a bleak prison with stone walls.
(b) In a cellar.
(c) In a courtyard with tents for shelter.
(d) In a dormitory with other political offenders.

3. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?
(a) Denouncing her best friend.
(b) Writing a condemnation of Trotsky.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Forming a group to assassinate Stalin.

4. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?
(a) Abdullin.
(b) Lyama.
(c) Yegereva.
(d) Sagidullin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?

2. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?

3. Why is Nina in prison?

4. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?

5. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?

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