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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. Why do many people believe they are safe from arrest?
(a) They have been given medals from Stalin.
(b) They are not active in politics.
(c) They are loyal party members.
(d) They teach in very remote areas.

2. 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 show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.
(d) They are recorded inacurrately.

3. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?
(a) The gauntlet.
(b) The Conveyor Belt.
(c) Waterboarding.
(d) The Stream.

4. What does Natasha reveal about the Gestapo?
(a) They are actually more humane than the Communists.
(b) They are in league with Stalin's secret police.
(c) They have the same forms of torture as the Communists.
(d) She worked for the Gestapo before coming to this prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?

2. How is Ginzburg's new prison described?

3. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?

4. What does Ginzburg call her mother-in-law?

5. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a friendly soldier tell Ginzburg on her way back to Butyrki after her trial?

2. Who are some of Ginzburg's cellmates at Krasin Street Prison?

3. Who summons Ginzburg after Elvov's arrest; what do they want with her, and how does she respond?

4. Where is Ginzburg taken and what does she remember after seeing the place?

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

6. What does Alexandra Alexandrovna advise Ginzburg?

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

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

9. How do the prisoners communicate in Krasin, and what disturbing piece of news does Ginzburg receive in one such communication?

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

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