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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
(a) Honest but flawed.
(b) Corrupt and hypocritical.
(c) They are conducted by incompetent judges.
(d) Self-serving.

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

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

4. What does Ginzburg's husband advise against her doing?
(a) Publicly saying goodbye to her children.
(b) Stopping to tell her mother goodbye.
(c) Defending her initial statements.
(d) Fighting the charges.

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

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

7. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?
(a) Yegereva.
(b) Sagidullin.
(c) Lyama.
(d) Abdullin.

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

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

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

11. Who summons Ginzburg?
(a) The deputy chief of the Moscow Communist party.
(b) The politburo in Moscow.
(c) The district committee.
(d) The head of the GGP.

12. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?
(a) They have each prisoner write his/her name on a piece of paper.
(b) They count pairs of feet.
(c) They count tin cups.
(d) They have the prisoners line up on their name in a hallway.

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

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

15. To where has Ginzburg's case been referred?
(a) Back to her home town council.
(b) The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
(c) The Military Intelligence branch of investigations.
(d) Her case has been dismissed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ginzburg want to prove?

3. What does Lydia tell Ginzburg that God does?

4. Who is Milda?

5. What does Natasha reveal about the Gestapo?

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