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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 happened to Hare-lip’s father?
(a) He died of a long, extended illness.
(b) He died of old age.
(c) He moved to Belgium.
(d) He was executed.

2. What awakens Rubashov at seven in the morning?
(a) A guard banging on his door
(b) The sunlight through the window
(c) A bugle call
(d) A person in the next cell screaming

3. What kind of car do the officials drive who come to arrest Rubashov?
(a) A new German Audit
(b) An old Russian Moskvitch
(c) A French Peugeot
(d) A modern American car

4. What does the reader do as she reads the newspaper to Wassilij?
(a) She bends over closely as she has no glasses.
(b) She follows the lines with a finger.
(c) She coughs.
(d) She drinks a glass of milk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reads the newspaper to Vassilij?

2. What does Rubashov’s new exercise partner call himself?

3. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?

4. What does Rubashov realize about his position with Gletkin?

5. What does Ivanov say is incompatible with social progress?

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