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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. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) To await her sentence.
(b) To settle her personal affairs.
(c) The charges against her were dropped.
(d) The charges were held in abeyance.

2. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?
(a) Home.
(b) Siberia.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Krasin Street Prison.

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

4. What does Vevers use frequently?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) LSD.
(d) Marijuana.

5. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?
(a) The have been imprisoned.
(b) The Tartary government meetings have been suspended.
(c) The Tartary government has been accused of collusion with terrorists.
(d) They have resigned their positions en-masse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alyosha?

2. For how long does this form of interrogation last?

3. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?

4. How long does the second round of interrogations last?

5. Who is Garey Sagidullin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens on February 7, 1937, and why is one of Ginzburg's former students in particular agony about it?

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

4. How do the prisoners communicate in Krasin, and what disturbing piece of news does Ginzburg receive in one such communication?

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

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

7. Describe the situation that occurs concerning Carola Heintschke.

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

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

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

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