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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the evidence that many people are being charged?
(a) The whole system is running 24 hours per day.
(b) Food is scarce.
(c) The sounds of torture are everywhere.
(d) The prison cells are overcrowded.

2. What do Ginzburg, Rimma, Ira and Julia discover?
(a) They are the only women transferred to Moscow.
(b) They are bonding over the stress of prison.
(c) They are all unwilling to compromise their beliefs.
(d) They have one thing in common that may have led to their arrests.

3. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?
(a) Old pipes rattling.
(b) The rats gnawing on the pallets.
(c) Screams from torturing going on.
(d) No one knows.

4. What eventually stops this first round of the new type of interrogations?
(a) Ginzburg asks to speak to Elvov.
(b) Ginzburg confesses and signs what they want her to sign.
(c) A new prisoner takes their attention away from her.
(d) Ginzburg blacks out.

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

6. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?
(a) How Ginzburg knew Elvov.
(b) Why Ginzburg wrote several letters to Elvov supporting his ideas.
(c) Whether Elvov and Ginzburg were having an affair.
(d) If Elvov ever passed secret documents to Ginzburg.

7. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?
(a) They are recorded inacurrately.
(b) They put her family in a collaborative position.
(c) They are skewed to fit the judgment the interrogator is trying to justify.
(d) They show her as much closer to Elvov than she is.

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

9. What has happened to the entire government of Tartary?
(a) The Tartary government has been accused of collusion with terrorists.
(b) They have resigned their positions en-masse.
(c) The Tartary government meetings have been suspended.
(d) The have been imprisoned.

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

11. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
(a) It is the day Ginzburg was imprisoned.
(b) It is Ginzburg's last day to teach.
(c) It is Ginzburg's wedding anniversary day.
(d) It is Ginzburg's birthday.

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

13. What has Ginzburg heard is an indication she is about to be shot?
(a) The nicer the prison the more likely one is to die soon.
(b) She is given all her possesions back.
(c) She is made to sign papers that she is not allowed to read.
(d) She is put into a single cell with a real bed.

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

15. Where did Lyama's family work?
(a) On the Far-East Power System.
(b) On the Chinese-Far Eastern Railway.
(c) In the Moscow military supply system.
(d) They were nomadic people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?

3. What does Lydia tell Ginzburg that God does?

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

5. Why do many people believe they are safe from arrest?

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