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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) Several days.
(c) 7 minutes.
(d) 18 hours.
2. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?
(a) Ginzbug is reprimanded, but it is later canceled.
(b) Ginzburg must submit a vociferously-worded condemnation of Trotsky.
(c) Ginzburg is told she can give no more public lectures for two years.
(d) Ginzburg's status is lowered at the University.
3. How is Vevers described?
(a) Warm.
(b) Cold and calculating.
(c) Kind.
(d) Irrational.
4. What is Ginzburg told about her husband?
(a) He is divorcing her.
(b) He has hired a good lawyer.
(c) He has disowned her.
(d) He has also been arrested.
5. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?
(a) Full of errors.
(b) Very accurate.
(c) Minimalism.
(d) Trotsykyist.
6. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?
(a) She shoots herself.
(b) She sets herself on fire.
(c) She drinks acid.
(d) She hangs herself.
7. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?
(a) Yegereva.
(b) Abdullin.
(c) Lyama.
(d) Sagidullin.
8. How old is the youngest woman in the cell with Ginzburg?
(a) 26.
(b) 23.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.
9. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?
(a) She criticizes them for their methods.
(b) She absolves her family in her crimes.
(c) She asks forgiveness from the party.
(d) She confesses to everything of which she is accused.
10. Where did Lyama's family work?
(a) On the Chinese-Far Eastern Railway.
(b) They were nomadic people.
(c) On the Far-East Power System.
(d) In the Moscow military supply system.
11. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?
(a) Home.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Krasin Street Prison.
(d) St. Petersburg.
12. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
(a) Honest but flawed.
(b) They are conducted by incompetent judges.
(c) Corrupt and hypocritical.
(d) Self-serving.
13. What happens on Red Army Day?
(a) Ginzburg is released to go home.
(b) Ginzburg is flogged.
(c) Ginzburg is taken into a different office and is given the soft approach.
(d) Ginzburg is tortured.
14. Who is Captain Vevers?
(a) The man who tries to be kind to Ginzburg in prison.
(b) The man who interrogates Ginzburg.
(c) The head of the secret police in Moscow.
(d) The man who forces the interrogator to be humane when questioning Ginzburg.
15. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.
(b) They are recorded inacurrately.
(c) They put her family in a collaborative position.
(d) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?
2. Who is Yefrem?
3. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
4. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?
5. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?
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