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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ginzburg try to clean up herself?
(a) Her defense lawyer is going to talk to her.
(b) Her mother is allowed to visit.
(c) Her trial will be soon.
(d) Her husband is allowed to visit.

2. 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.

3. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?
(a) She is no longer allowed to teach and it's the first day of school.
(b) It is the anniversary of when her young daughter had died.
(c) It is the anniversary of when her young son had died.
(d) It is the anniversary of when she first started teaching.

4. Where is Ginzburg taken?
(a) The Crimean Prison.
(b) The offices of the Moscow Secret Police.
(c) Lefortovo prison.
(d) The Warden's office.

5. Who is Zinaida Abramova?
(a) The wife of the prime minister of Tartary.
(b) An old friend of Ginzburg's.
(c) A person placed in the prison as a spy.
(d) A torturer.

6. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?
(a) Her mother might become hysterical.
(b) She might get an even harsher sentence.
(c) She might be shot.
(d) She could make things even more difficult for herself or loved ones.

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

8. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?
(a) The Tartary government has been accused of collusion with terrorists.
(b) They have resigned their positions en-masse.
(c) The Tartary government meetings have been suspended.
(d) The have been imprisoned.

9. Why is Ginzburg happy after her trial?
(a) She is released for time served.
(b) She is not to be executed.
(c) She is only given two years.
(d) She receives three years but is allowed to serve in her home town.

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

11. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?
(a) 24.
(b) 39.
(c) 52.
(d) 33.

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

13. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?
(a) He is inaccurate in a quote from her.
(b) Her association with him may be costly to her.
(c) He misunderstood one of her articles and cut it from the series.
(d) He is unable to help her identify two anonymous Stalin spies.

14. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?
(a) In the same cellar as Ginzburg.
(b) At his home.
(c) In the Gulag.
(d) Dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

2. What does the lack enable?

3. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?

4. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?

5. What does Ginzburg's husband advise against her doing?

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