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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 Gletkin say is the reason peasants in industrial positions should be shot for even minor infractions of the law?
(a) Rules are the only way for a country to know they are doing a good job.
(b) Peasants had to learn in ten years what most in other countries learned in 200 years.
(c) Peasants are too stupid to learn on their own.
(d) Death is the only punishment for all crimes.

2. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?
(a) Tap on the door the code for rest in peace, over and over
(b) Sing a hymn
(c) Yell anti-government slogans
(d) Stand at the spy hole and drum

3. What job did Rubashov hold?
(a) Colonel in the army
(b) Politician
(c) Commissar of the People
(d) College professor

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

5. What does No. 1 believe justifies his harsh methods?
(a) The past justifies the future.
(b) Justification is not necessary.
(c) He is the absolute authority on everything.
(d) The ends justify the means.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard think people need to be told?

2. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?

3. What does Ivanov call all the deaths that have occurred since the revolution?

4. What does the officer handing out breakfast tell the warden is missing in Rubashov’s cell?

5. What did Rubashov talk about with a diplomat of a foreign power which Gletkin says was a conversation to get a foreign power to overthrow the government?

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