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Darkness at Noon Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. To what round is Rubashov attached for daily exercise?
(a) First round
(b) Second round
(c) Third round
(d) Fourth round

2. What is the quadratic alphabet?
(a) There is no such thing.
(b) It is related to the way the sun hits a sundial.
(c) It is the number of paces .in a cell times three divided by one half.
(d) It is a square which is filled in with letters for communicating.

3. How many paces is Rubashov’s cell?
(a) Six and a half
(b) Five
(c) Seven and a half
(d) Nine

4. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?
(a) Spinning coins over his knuckles
(b) Telling a person’s weight by looking at them
(c) Moving his hat with his ears
(d) Pulling carrots out of hats

5. Who reads the newspaper to Vassilij?
(a) His son
(b) His daughter
(c) No one, he reads them himself
(d) His wife

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Rubashov allowed to remain in bed on his first morning in prison?

3. What does Rubashov think molded him and Ivanov to be very similar people?

4. What happens in the trade delegation library shortly before the second great trial of the opposition?

5. To whom is Richard’s sister-in-law married?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Rubashov question Richard and what does Rubashov tell Richard?

3. Why did Ivanov want to commit suicide at one point and how did Rubashov help him?

4. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

5. How is Rubashov given a chance to exercise? How is that carried out?

6. What does Gletkin consider to be the best methods for getting confessions out of prisoners? Why does he feel this way?

7. What does Ivanov say is the reason Rubashov will not capitulate with Gletkin’s method?

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

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

10. Why is the agriculturist killed?

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