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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 13, The Investigators Have Conclusive Evidence | Part I, Chapter 14, Stick and Carrot.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Ginzburg put after her initial interrogations?
(a) In a dormitory with other political offenders.
(b) In a courtyard with tents for shelter.
(c) In a cellar.
(d) In a bleak prison with stone walls.

3. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?
(a) Very accurate.
(b) Trotsykyist.
(c) Minimalism.
(d) Full of errors.

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

5. What does Ginzburg call her mother-in-law?
(a) Mother.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Avdo.
(d) Mrs. Aksyonnova.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?

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

3. Why is Elvov apologizing to Ginzburg?

4. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

5. In what year does Professor Elvov visit Ginzburg?

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