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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ginzburg told about her husband?
(a) He has hired a good lawyer.
(b) He is divorcing her.
(c) He has disowned her.
(d) He has also been arrested.

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

4. Who is Milda?
(a) A young, German opera singer.
(b) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.
(c) One of the female guards.
(d) An elderly Latvian woman.

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

6. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?
(a) Older party members.
(b) Discipline.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Decent food.

7. What does Lydia pray concerning Ginzburg?
(a) Ginzburg not commit suicide.
(b) Ginzburg will agree to the interrogators' wishes.
(c) Ginzburg will be true to her beliefs.
(d) Ginzburg will be vindicated.

8. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?
(a) Whether Elvov and Ginzburg were having an affair.
(b) Why Ginzburg wrote several letters to Elvov supporting his ideas.
(c) How Ginzburg knew Elvov.
(d) If Elvov ever passed secret documents to Ginzburg.

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

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

11. How is Vevers described?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Cold and calculating.
(c) Warm.
(d) Kind.

12. What eventually happens to Sagidullin?
(a) He is released.
(b) He is sentenced to death, which is commuted to life in prison.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is sent to Sibera for six years.

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

14. What has Ginzburg heard is an indication she is about to be shot?
(a) The nicer the prison the more likely one is to die soon.
(b) She is given all her possesions back.
(c) She is made to sign papers that she is not allowed to read.
(d) She is put into a single cell with a real bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the youngest woman in the cell with Ginzburg?

2. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?

3. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?

4. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?

5. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?

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