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

2. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?
(a) Anecdotes about the officer’s mess
(b) Anecdotes about his father, a blacksmith
(c) Stories of his girlfriends
(d) Stories of his life in America

3. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?
(a) To die without protest
(b) To serve without vanity
(c) To allow the younger generation to take the reins
(d) To confess even when innocent

4. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s emotional state?
(a) Anti-revolutionary
(b) Martyr complex
(c) Nervous depression
(d) Sentimental nonsense

5. Ivanov believes that he is what kind of person? What kind of person does Ivanov believe Gletkin to be?
(a) Ivanov is a cynic and Ivanov is a moralist.
(b) Ivanov is a "by the books" and Gletkin is spontaneous.
(c) Gletkin is a cynic and Ivanov is a moralist
(d) Gletkin is a stoic and Ivanov is soft

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Wassilij about contradicting the reader?

2. How did Vassilij get the scar on his neck?

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

4. How many minutes were the prisoners not in isolation allowed to walk outside?

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

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