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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 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 his father, a blacksmith
(d) Anecdotes about the officer’s mess

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

3. What does Rubashov think Gletkin represents?
(a) The brutal embodiment of state.
(b) The actual counter-revolution
(c) The state’s desire to control all people
(d) The harmful effect of promoting peasants

4. What does Rubashov say is the reason he is lost?
(a) He no longer believes himself infallible.
(b) He now knows the revolution has a self-centered person at the head.
(c) He fought for the wrong cause.
(d) He realizes they are going to shoot him.

5. What does Little Loewy smoke?
(a) A sailor’s pipe
(b) Cigars
(c) A corncob pipe
(d) Cigarettes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov say he meant by acting by violence?

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

3. Who is reading the newspaper to Wassilij?

4. What does Gletkin say is the one duty of the revolution?

5. About how long does it take to travel to the prison from Rubashov’s home?

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