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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. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?
(a) In a courtyard with tents for shelter.
(b) In a dormitory with other political offenders.
(c) In a cellar.
(d) In a bleak prison with stone walls.

2. What does Ginzburg want to prove?
(a) She is innocent.
(b) Gossip is not truth.
(c) Stalin is mentally unstable.
(d) Stalin is going to far.

3. How long after her hearing is Ginzburg arrested?
(a) Eight days.
(b) Several months.
(c) One day.
(d) Three weeks.

4. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(b) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(c) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.
(d) The warden trips over a threshold.

5. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?
(a) The Conveyor Belt.
(b) Waterboarding.
(c) The Stream.
(d) The gauntlet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Yefrem?

2. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?

3. Where is Ginzburg taken?

4. How does Ginzburg defend herself?

5. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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