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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Grammatical Fiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wallilij do occasionally as he listens to the newspaper account?
(a) Tells her to stop for a moment
(b) Mumbles
(c) Shouts a curse
(d) Paces the floor

2. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?
(a) Stories of his life in America
(b) Stories of his girlfriends
(c) Anecdotes about the officer’s mess
(d) Anecdotes about his father, a blacksmith

3. What kind of car do the officials drive who come to arrest Rubashov?
(a) A new German Audit
(b) A modern American car
(c) A French Peugeot
(d) An old Russian Moskvitch

4. To what new job is Arlova appointed?
(a) To be a librarian and monitor the political correctness of books
(b) To be the secretary for Rubashov’s superior
(c) To monitor the talk in the canteen
(d) To write a new biography of No. 1

5. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?
(a) Engineering
(b) Law
(c) Medicine
(d) Astronomy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wassilij think one must be cunning in life?

2. On what does Rubashov say Ivanov’s loyalty to No. 1 is based?

3. Why is Ivanov arrested?

4. Why does Rubashov think that Gletkin has nothing to erase?

5. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?

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