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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 happened to Arlova?
(a) She killed herself.
(b) She was executed.
(c) She died after a long illness.
(d) She married an Englishman and moved.

2. What is an execution called in prison?
(a) Prejudiced termination
(b) Target practice
(c) Physical liquidation
(d) Hangman’s Bluff

3. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?
(a) Rubashov cannot change the system if he is kicked out of the system
(b) You can’t save them all
(c) That she was obviously doing something wrong
(d) That Rubashov is more valuable to the revolution

4. What does Gletkin say is the reason Gletkin did not give in to torture?
(a) He fainted.
(b) He believes in Communism too strongly.
(c) He did give into torture.
(d) He has a rare disease in which his nerves do not feel pain.

5. Why does Rubashov feel sorry for Prisoner 402?
(a) Rubashov does not feel sorry for 402
(b) 402 will not be killed but imprisoned for the rest of his life
(c) 402 is very young
(d) 402 is not allowed outside

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Richard’s trade?

2. What does Ivanov say are the two conceptions of human ethics?

3. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?

4. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?

5. What does Rubashov want to ask the warden for when they arrive at his cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

2. What does Ivanov present to Rubashov during their first interview?

3. Whom does Rubashov watch the guards escort down the hallway after Rubashov’s flashback? What does the man look like?

4. What does Little Loewy tell Rubashov about Loewy’s life?

5. What is Rubashov’s relationship to Arlova and what happens to her?

6. How does Rubashov pass his time in the his cell?

7. What does Rubashov do after he is told he will get no breakfast?

8. What does Rubashov see the last night of the two weeks given to Rubashov by Ivanov? Who arranges it?

9. How does Rubashov respond to the evidence and charges Ivanov presents? What is Ivanov’s response?

10. What was Prisoner 406’s sentence in his country of origin? How much time does he serve? How does he get out of prison?

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