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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 47, A Bathhouse! Just an Ordinary Bathhouse! | Part I, Chapter 48, The Ruins of Sclusselburg.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Nina in prison?
(a) Her boyfriend is in a conspiracy group.
(b) For failing to denounce someone who denounces Stalin.
(c) Her mother said negative things about Stalin.
(d) Her brother denounced Stalin and Nina does not report him.

3. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?
(a) 7 minutes.
(b) 10 hours.
(c) Several days.
(d) 18 hours.

4. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?
(a) Tries to kill herself.
(b) Denounces Yaroslavsky.
(c) Curses Stalin.
(d) Denounces her husband.

5. What does Ginzburg write?
(a) A novel about her childhood.
(b) A chapbook of poetry.
(c) An appeal to the head of the Politburo.
(d) A treatise on the abuses of the Soviet system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?

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

3. What do most of the women receive for sentences?

4. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?

5. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?

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