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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 Rubashov know would stop the hearings?
(a) To sleep through the hearings
(b) To kill himself
(c) To agree to everything or to deny everything
(d) To begin accusations against Gletkin

2. What does the prosecutor tell Rubashov he does not have because of Arlova?
(a) The entire story
(b) No understanding of what is necessary for the revolution
(c) No moral sense
(d) No regrets

3. What does Gletkin say about Arlova?
(a) She said before she died that Rubashov considered the revolution dead.
(b) Arlova is not really dead.
(c) Rubashov did not denounce her.
(d) She might have been innocent.

4. Why doesn’t Wassiij hear the prosecutor’s speech as it is read?
(a) He has fallen asleep.
(b) He is daydreaming.
(c) He has put a pillow over his head.
(d) He has left the room.

5. What did Wassilij hide in his mattress?
(a) A Bible
(b) A picture of Lenin
(c) A new passport
(d) A gun

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov think is the real reason he is innocent of all charges?

2. What does Rubashov say every government measure represents?

3. What does Rubashov call the light in the room where his third hearing is held?

4. What does the prosecutor ask Rubashov about counter-revolutionary movements?

5. From where does Rubashov’s new exercise partner come?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wassilij’s daughter read the paper to him?

2. What does Wassilij think about right after the questions concerning Arlova are read to him?

3. For what reason does Rubashov think the regime is attempting to get rid of the old guard?

4. What is Wassilij’s daughter thinking as she reads the paper out loud?

5. What does Rubashov think about the party as he is waiting to be executed?

6. What are the first two questions the prosecutor asks Rubashov?

7. When Rubashov begins to address the court, what does he say he will talk about?

8. What happens after 402 taps his farewell to Rubashov?

9. To what other charges does Rubashov concede? What is the one charge that is dropped?

10. What is the result of Gletkin’s pushing Rubashov with no sleep?

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