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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. How long does Ginzburg's trial last?
(a) Several days.
(b) 7 minutes.
(c) 18 hours.
(d) 10 hours.

2. What is the so-called method when Ginzburg is harshly interrogated by uninterrupted interrogation with different interrogators?
(a) The gauntlet.
(b) Waterboarding.
(c) The Stream.
(d) The Conveyor Belt.

3. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) The charges against her were dropped.
(b) To settle her personal affairs.
(c) To await her sentence.
(d) The charges were held in abeyance.

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

5. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?
(a) She loves the Party more than she loves him.
(b) He was going to make up lies about her involvement with Elvov.
(c) He beat her all the time.
(d) He was embezzling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ginzburg, Rimma, Ira and Julia discover?

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

3. What does Avodotya Aksyonova advise Ginzburg?

4. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?

5. What was Julia Karepova's career before imprisonment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Ginzburg taken and what does she remember after seeing the place?

2. Describe the interrogation of Ginzburg by Livanov.

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

4. Describe Captain Vevers' behavior to Ginzburg.

5. Who are Ginzburg's new cell mates?

6. What happens after Ginzburg is given a summation of her indictments?

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

8. How is Ginzburg's situation changed on Red Army Day?

9. Who is Secretary Abdullin and what does he ask of Ginzburg?

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

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