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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) The charges were held in abeyance.
(b) To settle her personal affairs.
(c) The charges against her were dropped.
(d) To await her sentence.

2. Who is Captain Vevers?
(a) The head of the secret police in Moscow.
(b) The man who forces the interrogator to be humane when questioning Ginzburg.
(c) The man who interrogates Ginzburg.
(d) The man who tries to be kind to Ginzburg in prison.

3. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
(a) It is the day Ginzburg was imprisoned.
(b) It is Ginzburg's birthday.
(c) It is Ginzburg's last day to teach.
(d) It is Ginzburg's wedding anniversary day.

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

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

6. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?
(a) Very accurate.
(b) Minimalism.
(c) Full of errors.
(d) Trotsykyist.

7. What happens on Red Army Day?
(a) Ginzburg is flogged.
(b) Ginzburg is released to go home.
(c) Ginzburg is taken into a different office and is given the soft approach.
(d) Ginzburg is tortured.

8. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?
(a) To humble herself.
(b) To go far away.
(c) To ask her friends to give her their endorsements.
(d) To ask her husband to denounce her.

9. How long after her hearing is Ginzburg arrested?
(a) Eight days.
(b) Several months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One day.

10. What does Ginzburg call her mother-in-law?
(a) Mrs. Aksyonnova.
(b) Mother.
(c) Avdo.
(d) Grandmother.

11. What does the lack enable?
(a) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.
(b) Scurvy and other diseases.
(c) Prisoners to communicate freely.
(d) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.

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

13. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?
(a) Ginzburg confesses and signs what they want her to sign.
(b) A new prisoner takes their attention away from her.
(c) Ginzburg asks to speak to Elvov.
(d) Ginzburg blacks out.

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

15. To what series of books has Elvov contributed an article?
(a) A series on the famous painters of Russia.
(b) A series on the fall of Czar Nicholas II.
(c) A series on the famous writers of Russia.
(d) A series on the history of the Communist Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?

2. What do Ginzburg, Rimma, Ira and Julia discover?

3. What does Ginzburg want to prove?

4. Why does Ginzburg try to clean up herself?

5. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?

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