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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 the lack enable?
(a) Prisoners to communicate freely.
(b) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.
(c) Scurvy and other diseases.
(d) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.

2. Who is Zinaida Abramova?
(a) The wife of the prime minister of Tartary.
(b) A person placed in the prison as a spy.
(c) A torturer.
(d) An old friend of Ginzburg's.

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

4. What does Lydia tell Ginzburg that God does?
(a) Punishes wicked doers.
(b) Triumphs in the end.
(c) Watches over fatherless children.
(d) Exacts vengeance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?

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

3. Who is Lyama Shepel?

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

5. What is the evidence that many people are being charged?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Captain Vevers' behavior to Ginzburg.

4. Why does Ginzburg think things have been straightened out and what happens to throw her back into the midst of the purge?

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

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

7. What does Ginzburg discover about the charges against her as she is traveling back to Moscow?

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

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

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

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