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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Comrade Beylin?
(a) Stalin's son-in-law and head of the Foreign Propaganda office.
(b) The new Chariman of the Bureau of Party Political Control.
(c) The head of the local GPU.
(d) A doctor who gives Ginzburg a slip saying she was ill.

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

9. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.
(b) They put her family in a collaborative position.
(c) They are recorded inacurrately.
(d) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.

10. What is returned to Ginzburg?
(a) Her money.
(b) Her papers.
(c) Her dentures.
(d) Her watch.

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

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

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

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

15. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?
(a) She is exonerated of all but three minor charges.
(b) She is to be executed.
(c) She is expelled from the Communist Party.
(d) She is to go work on a communal farm and teach there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?

2. What does Yaroslavsky do concening Ginzburg?

3. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?

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

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

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