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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?
(a) Moving his hat with his ears
(b) Pulling carrots out of hats
(c) Telling a person’s weight by looking at them
(d) Spinning coins over his knuckles

3. How much did Rubashov have to pay for the taxi ride he took when he left Richard?
(a) Twenty marks
(b) Thirty rubles
(c) Nothing
(d) Ten dollars

4. What is Rubashov dreaming about when officials come to arrest him?
(a) His wife and children who were killed
(b) His first arrest
(c) His first trip outside the country
(d) Leaving Russia and living in France

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two types of cases that could be used in court for Rubashov?

2. As Rubashov paces his cell, what does he wonder about No. 1 ?

3. What is the quadratic alphabet?

4. With what does the younger official bang on Rubashov’s door?

5. What is wrong with Ivanov’s bad leg?

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