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

2. What does Rubashov think is the reason Gletkin reads in a monotone?
(a) Gletkin does not want Rubashov to hear what Gletkin is reading.
(b) Gletkin learned to read late in life.
(c) He is trying to make the accusations difficult to understand.
(d) He is trying to make Rubashov sleepy.

3. To what round is Rubashov attached for daily exercise?
(a) Third round
(b) Fourth round
(c) Second round
(d) First round

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

5. What does 406 say is the reason he is in prison?
(a) He tried to start a counterrevolution
(b) He was sleeping in the basement of a known criminal
(c) He stole some food
(d) He was put on the wrong train

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the resolution that the reader signed demand?

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

3. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?

4. With what does the younger official bang on Rubashov’s door?

5. What did Rubashov talk about with a diplomat of a foreign power which Gletkin says was a conversation to get a foreign power to overthrow the government?

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