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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 consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?
(a) Forming a group to assassinate Stalin.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Denouncing her best friend.
(d) Writing a condemnation of Trotsky.

2. Who is Captain Vevers?
(a) The man who interrogates Ginzburg.
(b) The head of the secret police in Moscow.
(c) The man who forces the interrogator to be humane when questioning Ginzburg.
(d) The man who tries to be kind to Ginzburg in prison.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the youngest woman in the cell with Ginzburg?

2. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?

3. What does Ginzburg observe when she arrives in Moscow?

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

5. To what does Ginzburg attribute her not signing anything that was false?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Ginzburg's first cellmate at Black Lake?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Captain Vevers' behavior to Ginzburg.

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