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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 Rubashov say is suicide for the revolution?
(a) Humanitarian weakness when the masses are not mature
(b) Saving a country by saving people
(c) Deciding that death is better than prison
(d) To question whether humans are good

2. What message does Rubashov receive about what he should do when his trial is over?
(a) Move to Europe
(b) Die in silence
(c) Kill No. 1
(d) Find his wife

3. How many paces is Rubashov’s cell?
(a) Seven and a half
(b) Five
(c) Nine
(d) Six and a half

4. What does Rubashov feel is one of the worst degradation during his interviews with Gletkin?
(a) When he falls off a chair
(b) When he has to talk with his eyes closed
(c) When he falls asleep
(d) When he has to ask to relieve himself

5. What is the quadratic alphabet?
(a) It is the number of paces .in a cell times three divided by one half.
(b) There is no such thing.
(c) It is a square which is filled in with letters for communicating.
(d) It is related to the way the sun hits a sundial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does 406 say is the reason he is in prison?

2. What does the trial audience yell when the plot to assassinate No. 1 is revealed?

3. What does Rubashov need in order to get cigarettes?

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

5. What is the one charge against Rubashov which is dropped?

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