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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 happens on Red Army Day?
(a) Ginzburg is flogged.
(b) Ginzburg is tortured.
(c) Ginzburg is released to go home.
(d) Ginzburg is taken into a different office and is given the soft approach.

2. What is Ginzburg told about her husband?
(a) He is divorcing her.
(b) He has disowned her.
(c) He has hired a good lawyer.
(d) He has also been arrested.

3. Who is Garey Sagidullin?
(a) An interrogator.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) A janitor.
(d) An old professor.

4. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?
(a) It is the anniversary of when her young daughter had died.
(b) It is the anniversary of when she first started teaching.
(c) It is the anniversary of when her young son had died.
(d) She is no longer allowed to teach and it's the first day of school.

5. Who is Lyama Shepel?
(a) A cook at the prison.
(b) Ginzburg's cell mate.
(c) One of the interrogators.
(d) Ginzburg's family servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lydia pray concerning Ginzburg?

2. What is the maximum penalty for the crimes with which Ginzburg is charged?

3. To what series of books has Elvov contributed an article?

4. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

5. Who is Alyosha?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Alexandra Alexandrovna advise Ginzburg?

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

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

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

6. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

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

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

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

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

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