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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. For how long does this form of interrogation last?
(a) 7 days.
(b) Several weeks.
(c) 3 days.
(d) A few hours.

2. Why is Nina in prison?
(a) Her brother denounced Stalin and Nina does not report him.
(b) Her mother said negative things about Stalin.
(c) Her boyfriend is in a conspiracy group.
(d) For failing to denounce someone who denounces Stalin.

3. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?
(a) Number codes.
(b) Knocking on walls.
(c) Music.
(d) A form of shorthand.

4. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?
(a) Writing a condemnation of Trotsky.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Forming a group to assassinate Stalin.
(d) Denouncing her best friend.

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?
(a) 52.
(b) 33.
(c) 24.
(d) 39.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who apologizes to Ginzburg?

2. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?

3. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?

4. Why is Ginzburg sent home?

5. Who is Alyosha?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?

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

5. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

6. What does one prisoner do and others follow that breaks up the horror of their situation momentarily?

7. What does Ira ask Tsarevsky to do as she and others are being transferred and what does his willingness to do so portend?

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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