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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov say is the one argument the party has to settle a difference of opinion?
(a) The state has the power
(b) The consequence is obvious
(c) Death to opposition
(d) The masses are like sheep

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

3. What does the officer handing out breakfast tell the warden is missing in Rubashov’s cell?
(a) A mop for the floor
(b) Soap at the sink
(c) A towel
(d) A chair at the desk

4. What color blouses did Arlova always wear?
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) White

5. What does Rubashov shout out his door as the breakfast crew is leaving his hallway?
(a) I will eat lunch.
(b) I do not know.
(c) Paper and pencil
(d) Go on and leave me alone.

6. What does Ivanov say would have made Raskolnikov innocent of a crime?
(a) If he had killed the old woman for the party
(b) If the old woman had fought against Raskolnikov
(c) If he had not killed a second person
(d) If it had been done in a different country

7. As Rubashov paces his cell, what does he wonder about No. 1 ?
(a) What No. 1 might be doing at the moment
(b) Whether anyone can kill No. 1
(c) Whether No. 1 ever really believed the party line
(d) What goes on inside No. 1’s brain

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

9. How does Rubashov become deaf?
(a) He ran artillery in the army.
(b) He had scarlet fever when he was a boy.
(c) He is hit behind the ear with a pistol.
(d) He was born deaf in one ear.

10. What does Rubashov want to ask the warden for when they arrive at his cell?
(a) An extra blanket
(b) Wool socks
(c) Paper to write a letter
(d) Some coffee

11. What relative of Arlova’s was arrested over there?
(a) Her sister
(b) Her mother
(c) Her father
(d) Her brother

12. What does No. 1 believe justifies his harsh methods?
(a) The past justifies the future.
(b) He is the absolute authority on everything.
(c) The ends justify the means.
(d) Justification is not necessary.

13. About how long does it take to travel to the prison from Rubashov’s home?
(a) One hour
(b) Two days
(c) One day
(d) Thirty minutes

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

15. With what does Rubashov say he and the other leaders of the revolution replaced vision?
(a) Hard work
(b) Nothing, vision was never discussed
(c) A specific set of laws
(d) Logical deduction

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?

2. What does Ivanov say are the two conceptions of human ethics?

3. What profession did No. 406 have?

4. With what does Rubashov say wrong ideas must be punished?

5. What happens in the trade delegation library shortly before the second great trial of the opposition?

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