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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?
(a) He is a dockworker
(b) Writes novels
(c) He is a banker
(d) Writes articles for party magazines

2. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?
(a) A thin peasant with bast shoes
(b) The young army officer
(c) Prisoner 402
(d) Rip Van Wrinkle

3. What does 406 say is the reason he is in prison?
(a) He was sleeping in the basement of a known criminal
(b) He tried to start a counterrevolution
(c) He was put on the wrong train
(d) He stole some food

4. What book does Ivanov say should never have been written?
(a) Anna Karenina
(b) War and Peace
(c) Crime and Punishment
(d) The Gulag Archipelago

5. What does the doctor say is wrong with Rubashov’s tooth?
(a) There is nothing wrong with his tooth.
(b) His eye-tooth is broken off at the root.
(c) It needs a filling.
(d) His tooth has been chipped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov know would stop the hearings?

2. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?

3. What does No. 1 believe justifies his harsh methods?

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

5. What does Hare-lip say about Rubashov?

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