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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. How is Ginzburg's new prison described?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Noisy and filthy.
(c) Clean and quiet.
(d) Newly built.

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

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

4. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?
(a) Ginzbug is reprimanded, but it is later canceled.
(b) Ginzburg is told she can give no more public lectures for two years.
(c) Ginzburg must submit a vociferously-worded condemnation of Trotsky.
(d) Ginzburg's status is lowered at the University.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Lyama Shepel?

3. Why is Ginzburg summoned to a Party meeting?

4. Where is Ginzburg taken?

5. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Secretary Abdullin and what does he ask of Ginzburg?

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

3. What happens after Ginzburg is given a summation of her indictments?

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

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

6. What is mentioned about the Red Tatary and why does Ginzburg threaten one prisoner in French?

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

8. Who is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg and why is she awakened early in the morning on December 1, 1934?

9. Who is Zinaida Abramova and how is she treated at the prison?

10. Where is Ginzburg being transferred and what is significant about the watch returned to her?

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