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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Ginzburg taken?
(a) The offices of the Moscow Secret Police.
(b) The Warden's office.
(c) The Crimean Prison.
(d) Lefortovo prison.

5. How old is Elvov when he visits Ginzburg?
(a) 39.
(b) 52.
(c) 33.
(d) 24.

6. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?
(a) She is whipped.
(b) She is put in solitary confinement.
(c) She is shot.
(d) The entire cell block erupts in laughter.

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

8. For how long does this form of interrogation last?
(a) Several weeks.
(b) A few hours.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 7 days.

9. What does Ginzburg observe when she arrives in Moscow?
(a) Her son is here.
(b) Only the intelligentsia have been targeted.
(c) The purges have been massive.
(d) Her husband is here.

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

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

12. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
(a) Honest but flawed.
(b) Self-serving.
(c) Corrupt and hypocritical.
(d) They are conducted by incompetent judges.

13. What does Lydia pray concerning Ginzburg?
(a) Ginzburg will be vindicated.
(b) Ginzburg will agree to the interrogators' wishes.
(c) Ginzburg will be true to her beliefs.
(d) Ginzburg not commit suicide.

14. Why is Ginzburg happy after her trial?
(a) She is released for time served.
(b) She receives three years but is allowed to serve in her home town.
(c) She is only given two years.
(d) She is not to be executed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?

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

3. What has Ginzburg heard is an indication she is about to be shot?

4. Who is Garey Sagidullin?

5. What is the maximum penalty for the crimes with which Ginzburg is charged?

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