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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ginzburg pass out?
(a) When she is choked by an interrogator.
(b) The lack of decent food.
(c) The beatings.
(d) The heat.

3. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?
(a) She drinks acid.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) She sets herself on fire.
(d) She shoots herself.

4. What does Yaroslavsky do concening Ginzburg?
(a) Denounces her.
(b) Tries to help her to flee the country.
(c) Hides evidence against her.
(d) Trumps up evidence against her.

5. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?
(a) Collaborating with the enemy.
(b) Conspiracy.
(c) Teaching heresy.
(d) Inciting riots.

6. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?
(a) She is shot.
(b) She is put in solitary confinement.
(c) She is whipped.
(d) The entire cell block erupts in laughter.

7. What does Ginzburg want to prove?
(a) She is innocent.
(b) Stalin is mentally unstable.
(c) Gossip is not truth.
(d) Stalin is going to far.

8. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(b) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(c) The warden trips over a threshold.
(d) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.

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

10. Who is Lyama Shepel?
(a) A cook at the prison.
(b) One of the interrogators.
(c) Ginzburg's cell mate.
(d) Ginzburg's family servant.

11. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) Its battery is run down.
(b) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.
(c) It has not been wound since she entered prison.
(d) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.

12. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?
(a) In a bleak prison with stone walls.
(b) In a dormitory with other political offenders.
(c) In a cellar.
(d) In a courtyard with tents for shelter.

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

14. What happens after a period of regular interrogations?
(a) Ginzburg is physically abused.
(b) Ginzburg is made to stay awake.
(c) Ginzburg is shown her son being interrogated.
(d) The interrogations stop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do many people believe they are safe from arrest?

2. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?

3. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?

4. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

5. What is the maximum penalty for the crimes with which Ginzburg is charged?

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