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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 Zinaida Abramova?
(a) A torturer.
(b) A person placed in the prison as a spy.
(c) An old friend of Ginzburg's.
(d) The wife of the prime minister of Tartary.

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

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

4. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?
(a) She confesses to everything of which she is accused.
(b) She criticizes them for their methods.
(c) She absolves her family in her crimes.
(d) She asks forgiveness from the party.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

3. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?

4. Why do many people believe they are safe from arrest?

5. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?

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