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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
(a) He was going to make up lies about her involvement with Elvov.
(b) She loves the Party more than she loves him.
(c) He was embezzling.
(d) He beat her all the time.

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

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

5. What does Vevers use frequently?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) LSD.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is returned to Ginzburg?

2. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?

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

4. What happens on Red Army Day?

5. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is Ginzburg arrested and where does she tell goodbye?

2. Who is Professor Elvov and how does he have bearing on Ginzburg's life?

3. Who is Garey Sagidullin and what does Ginzburg learn from him?

4. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?

5. What happens on February 7, 1937, and why is one of Ginzburg's former students in particular agony about it?

6. What does Ira ask Tsarevsky to do as she and others are being transferred and what does his willingness to do so portend?

7. How is Ginzburg's mother-in-law described and what does she advise Ginzburg?

8. To where is Ginzburg's case referred, and what is significant about that fact?

9. What is the "Conveyor Belt" interrogation method and how is it used on Ginzburg?

10. How is Ginzburg's situation changed on Red Army Day?

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