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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 the reader say the cell secretary asks her?
(a) If Rubashov said anything useful to Wassilij
(b) If Wassilij is a counter-revolutionary
(c) If Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end
(d) If she has signed the petition

2. What worries Wassilij about contradicting the reader?
(a) She might turn him in for it.
(b) She may not speak with him again.
(c) She might quit reading the paper to him.
(d) She might think badly of him.

3. What does the doctor say is wrong with Rubashov’s tooth?
(a) It needs a filling.
(b) There is nothing wrong with his tooth.
(c) His eye-tooth is broken off at the root.
(d) His tooth has been chipped.

4. What does Rubashov think molded him and Ivanov to be very similar people?
(a) Both knowing No. 1 so well
(b) Fighting in a war
(c) The give and take of being outside the country so often
(d) The intense environment of the party

5. What does Rubashov say becomes real in death?
(a) The metaphysical
(b) The purpose in dying
(c) Believing in an after life
(d) Thoughts of God

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an execution called in prison?

2. What does Hare-lip say is the what Rubashov says is the way No. 1 will no longer be in power?

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

4. What makes Wassilij start to cough?

5. Why does Wassilij think one must be cunning in life?

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