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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 is the quadratic alphabet?
(a) It is related to the way the sun hits a sundial.
(b) There is no such thing.
(c) It is a square which is filled in with letters for communicating.
(d) It is the number of paces .in a cell times three divided by one half.

2. What does the trial audience yell when the plot to assassinate No. 1 is revealed?
(a) Exterminate the rats.
(b) Hail No. 1.
(c) Shoot the mad dogs.
(d) Send them to the north.

3. What does Wassilij ask the reader about the petition she has?
(a) If she plans to sign it
(b) If the boy she plans to marry has signed it
(c) If she brought it there for him to sign
(d) If the civil war veterans are required to sign it

4. What does Rubashov call the light in the room where his third hearing is held?
(a) An intimidation light
(b) An interrogation beam
(c) A dazzle-light
(d) A torture device

5. What does Gletkin tell Rubashov is the only way Rubashov can serve the Party now?
(a) By denouncing all of the old guard
(b) By denouncing Ivanov
(c) By making a full public confession to the plot to kill No. 1
(d) By giving the names of those involved in the plot against No. 1

Short Answer Questions

1. As Rubashov is lying in his cell the first morning, what does he think will happen to him?

2. What does the reader do as she reads the newspaper to Wassilij?

3. To what round is Rubashov attached for daily exercise?

4. What does Gletkin say will happen in the future when the regime survives?

5. What right does the newspaper say Rubashov waived for the trial?

(see the answer key)

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