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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 might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?
(a) Her mother might become hysterical.
(b) She could make things even more difficult for herself or loved ones.
(c) She might be shot.
(d) She might get an even harsher sentence.

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

3. How does Ginzburg describe Stalin?
(a) Virile.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Insane.
(d) Ugly and repulsive.

4. Who is Yefrem?
(a) One of Ginzburg's former students.
(b) A driver of the Black Maria.
(c) A secret police guard.
(d) A man who offers the prisoners some food when the truck is stopped.

5. Where is Ginzburg taken?
(a) The Warden's office.
(b) Lefortovo prison.
(c) The offices of the Moscow Secret Police.
(d) The Crimean Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ginsburg sad on September 1, 1935?

2. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?

3. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?

4. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?

5. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

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

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

9. What is mentioned about the Red Tatary and why does Ginzburg threaten one prisoner in French?

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

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