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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 21, Orphans Twice Over | Part I, Chapter 22, Tukhachevsky and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one person Zinaida Abramova says has been arrested?
(a) The son of her best friend.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Tukhachevsky.
(d) Her next-door-neighbor.

2. What does Ginzburg notice is lacking where she is now?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Decent food.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Older party members.

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

4. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) It has not been wound since she entered prison.
(b) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.
(c) Its battery is run down.
(d) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.

5. Who is Garey Sagidullin?
(a) A janitor.
(b) An interrogator.
(c) A prison guard.
(d) An old professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?

2. How does Stalin label sections of the book that Elvov writes?

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

4. What news does Ginzburg get one day in a singing message?

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

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