View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?
(a) To ask her husband to denounce her.
(b) To humble herself.
(c) To go far away.
(d) To ask her friends to give her their endorsements.

2. Why is Ginzburg summoned to a Party meeting?
(a) For not denouncing Elvov.
(b) For failing to denouce Trotsky strenuously enough in a recent lecture.
(c) For having a book in her home that was published outside of Russia.
(d) For missing two meetings in a row when she was ill.

3. How does Pitkovskaya commit suicide?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) She sets herself on fire.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) She drinks acid.

4. What does Natasha reveal about the Gestapo?
(a) She worked for the Gestapo before coming to this prison.
(b) They are actually more humane than the Communists.
(c) They have the same forms of torture as the Communists.
(d) They are in league with Stalin's secret police.

5. Who is Comrade Beylin?
(a) The new Chariman of the Bureau of Party Political Control.
(b) The head of the local GPU.
(c) Stalin's son-in-law and head of the Foreign Propaganda office.
(d) A doctor who gives Ginzburg a slip saying she was ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?

2. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?

3. To what does Ginzburg attribute her not signing anything that was false?

4. Where is Ginzburg taken?

5. What might happen if Ginzburg makes any stops along the way to present herself for the arrest warrant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg and why is she awakened early in the morning on December 1, 1934?

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

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

6. What does Alexandra Alexandrovna advise Ginzburg?

7. Describe the situation that occurs concerning Carola Heintschke.

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

9. Who are some of Ginzburg's cellmates at Krasin Street Prison?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 952 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample