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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 No. 402 tell Rubashov after Rubashov reveals his name?
(a) Serves you right.
(b) How the mighty doth fall.
(c) I am innocent.
(d) Why are you here?

2. What happened to Arlova?
(a) She married an Englishman and moved.
(b) She died after a long illness.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She was executed.

3. What was the last position Ivanov held in the military when he was over Rubashov?
(a) Platoon Lieutenant
(b) Company commander
(c) He was never in the military with Rubashov.
(d) Battalion commander

4. Who reads the newspaper to Vassilij?
(a) His wife
(b) No one, he reads them himself
(c) His daughter
(d) His son

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Little Loewy smoke?

4. What does Rubashov do first when they lock him in his cell?

5. With what was Rubashov’s suitcase filled when he met a man in southern Germany in 1933?

(see the answer key)

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