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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the trial audience yell when the plot to assassinate No. 1 is revealed?
(a) Exterminate the rats.
(b) Hail No. 1.
(c) Shoot the mad dogs.
(d) Send them to the north.

2. From where does Rubashov’s new exercise partner come?
(a) East Germany
(b) Province W
(c) Moscow
(d) Province D

3. What does Rubashov do with his confession before supper?
(a) He flushes it down the john
(b) He tears it up
(c) He hands it to a guard
(d) He reads it again and makes two corrections

4. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?
(a) He moved to Belgium.
(b) He was executed.
(c) He died of a long, extended illness.
(d) He died of old age.

5. What right does the newspaper say Rubashov waived for the trial?
(a) An advocate
(b) A jury trial
(c) The right to remain silent
(d) A change of venue

6. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?
(a) It must fall within 200 years
(b) It must ultimately give in to the masses
(c) The more stable a regime is the more rigid it becomes
(d) The regime must, eventually, give power to a small minority

7. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?
(a) Astronomy
(b) Medicine
(c) Engineering
(d) Law

8. What does the newspaper say is the type of evidence against Rubashov?
(a) Documents accumulated over a three year period
(b) Recorded conversations with terrorists
(c) Rubashov’s confession and documentary evidence
(d) It is not said what the evidence is

9. What does Hare-lip say is the what Rubashov says is the way No. 1 will no longer be in power?
(a) No. 1 will be removed by violence.
(b) No. 1 will resign when he is old.
(c) No. 1 will never be removed.
(d) No. 1 will be forced out by the Party.

10. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?
(a) Emotion
(b) Government
(c) Cleverness
(d) Religion

11. What does Rubashov feel is one of the worst degradation during his interviews with Gletkin?
(a) When he has to talk with his eyes closed
(b) When he has to ask to relieve himself
(c) When he falls asleep
(d) When he falls off a chair

12. What does the prosecutor interrupt Rubashov to ask?
(a) To ask him questions about Arlova
(b) To ask him about his time overseas
(c) If he is going to say anything against the revolution
(d) If he plans to take a long time

13. Between what does Rubashov’s condition alternate during the hearing?
(a) Peace and agitation
(b) Anger and apathy
(c) Indifference and rage
(d) Apathy and an unnatural wakefulness

14. What does Rubashov realize about his position with Gletkin?
(a) Gletkin wants to do away with the old guard.
(b) Gletkin is much younger than Rubashov.
(c) Gletkin hates Rubashov.
(d) Rubashov has as much power as Gletkin.

15. What does the reader ask Wassilij before Wassilij signs the petition?
(a) If he thinks the petition can save him
(b) If he is angry at Rubashov
(c) If he wants her to sign right below him
(d) If he wants her to read the petition to him

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of scarf is the reader wearing?

2. Who appoints the examining magistrate?

3. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?

4. What happens to Rubashov over the next several days following his first interview with Gletkin?

5. What does Wallilij do occasionally as he listens to the newspaper account?

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