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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 observe when she arrives in Moscow?
(a) The purges have been massive.
(b) Only the intelligentsia have been targeted.
(c) Her son is here.
(d) Her husband is here.

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

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

4. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?
(a) Knocking on walls.
(b) Number codes.
(c) A form of shorthand.
(d) Music.

5. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?
(a) 18 hours.
(b) 10 hours.
(c) 7 minutes.
(d) Several days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Ginzburg try to clean up herself?

3. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

4. What has Ginzburg heard is an indication she is about to be shot?

5. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does one prisoner do and others follow that breaks up the horror of their situation momentarily?

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

5. What do Ginzburg and her husband decide to do for the school holidays and what does she say about the people who are at the same vacation spot?

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

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

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

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

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

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