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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?
(a) To sing when she wakes in the morning.
(b) To rat on other prisoners.
(c) To stop up her ears with cotton.
(d) To teach her to read.

2. What eventually happens to Sagidullin?
(a) He is sentenced to death, which is commuted to life in prison.
(b) He is released.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is sent to Sibera for six years.

3. What is the ultimate outcome of the party meeting?
(a) Ginzburg is told she can give no more public lectures for two years.
(b) Ginzburg must submit a vociferously-worded condemnation of Trotsky.
(c) Ginzbug is reprimanded, but it is later canceled.
(d) Ginzburg's status is lowered at the University.

4. What form of communications does Ginzburg learn?
(a) Knocking on walls.
(b) Music.
(c) Number codes.
(d) A form of shorthand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who summons Ginzburg?

2. Who agonizes over the hearing on Ginzburg?

3. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?

4. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who summons Ginzburg after Elvov's arrest; what do they want with her, and how does she respond?

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

3. Where is Ginzburg being transferred and what is significant about the watch returned to her?

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

5. What does Ira ask Tsarevsky to do as she and others are being transferred and what does his willingness to do so portend?

6. When is Ginzburg arrested and where does she tell goodbye?

7. Describe Captain Vevers' behavior to Ginzburg.

8. Why does Ginzburg think things have been straightened out and what happens to throw her back into the midst of the purge?

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

10. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

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