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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. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
(a) He was embezzling.
(b) He beat her all the time.
(c) He was going to make up lies about her involvement with Elvov.
(d) She loves the Party more than she loves him.

2. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?
(a) Music.
(b) Knocking on walls.
(c) Number codes.
(d) A form of shorthand.

3. Who summons Ginzburg?
(a) The deputy chief of the Moscow Communist party.
(b) The district committee.
(c) The head of the GGP.
(d) The politburo in Moscow.

4. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying that Stalin's deputy of foreign affairs gave her the book.
(b) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.
(c) By saying that her lecture was not about Trotsky.
(d) By saying no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.

5. Who is Garey Sagidullin?
(a) An interrogator.
(b) A janitor.
(c) A prison guard.
(d) An old professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Professor Elvov visit Ginzburg?

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

3. What is the evidence that many people are being charged?

4. How long after her hearing is Ginzburg arrested?

5. What does Vevers use frequently?

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