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

2. What does Sagidullin think is the reason for the current purge?
(a) To trim the party, which had stopped being such an elite organization.
(b) To kill off anyone that might challenge Stalin.
(c) There does not seem to be a reason for it.
(d) To get Stalin's cronies into all the important positions in the government.

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

4. What does Tsarevsky say about Elvov?
(a) He has confessed against Ginzburg.
(b) He has killed himself.
(c) He has confessed to participating in a plot against Stalin.
(d) He has said Ginzburg contacted him about killing another party member.

5. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?
(a) In the same cellar as Ginzburg.
(b) At his home.
(c) Dead.
(d) In the Gulag.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lydia pray concerning Ginzburg?

2. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?

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

4. Who is Milda?

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Zinaida Abramova and how is she treated at the prison?

6. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?

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

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

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

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

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