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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?
(a) Conspiracy.
(b) Collaborating with the enemy.
(c) Teaching heresy.
(d) Inciting riots.

3. How is Ginzburg's new prison described?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Noisy and filthy.
(c) Clean and quiet.
(d) Newly built.

4. What news does Ginzburg get one day in a singing message?
(a) Her mother has been arrested.
(b) Her mother is dead.
(c) Her husband has been arrested.
(d) Her son is dead.

5. Why does Ginzburg pass out?
(a) The lack of decent food.
(b) The beatings.
(c) The heat.
(d) When she is choked by an interrogator.

6. Who is Comrade Beylin?
(a) A doctor who gives Ginzburg a slip saying she was ill.
(b) The head of the local GPU.
(c) The new Chariman of the Bureau of Party Political Control.
(d) Stalin's son-in-law and head of the Foreign Propaganda office.

7. Where did Lyama's family work?
(a) They were nomadic people.
(b) In the Moscow military supply system.
(c) On the Far-East Power System.
(d) On the Chinese-Far Eastern Railway.

8. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?
(a) Home.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Krasin Street Prison.

9. How long does the second round of interrogations last?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 1 day.
(d) Three hours.

10. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?
(a) To trim the party, which had stopped being such an elite organization.
(b) To kill off anyone that might challenge Stalin.
(c) To get Stalin's cronies into all the important positions in the government.
(d) There does not seem to be a reason for it.

11. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(b) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(c) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.
(d) The warden trips over a threshold.

12. What does Yaroslavsky do concening Ginzburg?
(a) Tries to help her to flee the country.
(b) Hides evidence against her.
(c) Trumps up evidence against her.
(d) Denounces her.

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

14. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?
(a) She is shot.
(b) She is put in solitary confinement.
(c) The entire cell block erupts in laughter.
(d) She is whipped.

15. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?
(a) Waterboarding.
(b) The gauntlet.
(c) The Stream.
(d) The Conveyor Belt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?

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

3. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?

4. To where has Ginzburg's case been referred?

5. Who is Zinaida Abramova?

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