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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 has driven many to martyrdom?
(a) Exhaustion and depression
(b) False beliefs
(c) Moral cowardice
(d) Religion

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

3. How many minutes were the prisoners not in isolation allowed to walk outside?
(a) Fifteen minutes
(b) Thirty minutes
(c) Twenty minutes
(d) An hour

4. As Rubashov paces his cell, what does he wonder about No. 1 ?
(a) What goes on inside No. 1’s brain
(b) What No. 1 might be doing at the moment
(c) Whether No. 1 ever really believed the party line
(d) Whether anyone can kill No. 1

5. What does the officer handing out breakfast tell the warden is missing in Rubashov’s cell?
(a) A mop for the floor
(b) A chair at the desk
(c) A towel
(d) Soap at the sink

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ivanov say would have made Raskolnikov innocent of a crime?

4. What is the quadratic alphabet?

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

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