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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivanov say are the two conceptions of human ethics?
(a) Humane and collective aim
(b) Natural and man-made
(c) Christian and humane
(d) Humane and inhumane

2. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?
(a) Stand at the spy hole and drum
(b) Tap on the door the code for rest in peace, over and over
(c) Sing a hymn
(d) Yell anti-government slogans

3. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?
(a) That Rubashov is more valuable to the revolution
(b) You can’t save them all
(c) That she was obviously doing something wrong
(d) Rubashov cannot change the system if he is kicked out of the system

4. What does Rubashov think about the Party’s results after he runs out of cigarettes?
(a) The Party could not foresee the results.
(b) The results were right.
(c) The Party was completely wrong.
(d) The principles were right, the results wrong.

5. How does Rubashov become deaf?
(a) He is hit behind the ear with a pistol.
(b) He was born deaf in one ear.
(c) He had scarlet fever when he was a boy.
(d) He ran artillery in the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the barber put under Rubashov’s collar?

2. What does Rubashov ask No. 1 for while Rubashov is still on crutches?

3. What happens in the trade delegation library shortly before the second great trial of the opposition?

4. How much did Rubashov have to pay for the taxi ride he took when he left Richard?

5. What does Little Loewy smoke?

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