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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov do first when they lock him in his cell?
(a) Screams at the guard
(b) Lights a cigarette
(c) Uses the toilet
(d) Lies down

2. What does Ivanov say has driven many to martyrdom?
(a) Exhaustion and depression
(b) Religion
(c) Moral cowardice
(d) False beliefs

3. What does the barber put under Rubashov’s collar?
(a) A piece of paper
(b) Some prison vouchers
(c) A piece of chocolate
(d) A photograph

4. Why is Rubashov allowed to remain in bed on his first morning in prison?
(a) The rules are not posted in his cell.
(b) He has not been processed yet.
(c) He claims to have a toothache.
(d) He tells them he has the flu.

5. What does Rubashov say is history’s mortar?
(a) War, deception and power
(b) Lies, soap, and religion
(c) Blood, mud, and lies
(d) Belief, blood and bravery

6. What message does Rubashov receive about what he should do when his trial is over?
(a) Kill No. 1
(b) Find his wife
(c) Die in silence
(d) Move to Europe

7. What is an execution called in prison?
(a) Prejudiced termination
(b) Target practice
(c) Hangman’s Bluff
(d) Physical liquidation

8. Where does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?
(a) In a Belgian port
(b) In Russia
(c) On the Rhine River
(d) In Germany

9. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?
(a) The cinema operator
(b) No one
(c) Richard’s brother
(d) A Party chairman

10. What does Rubashov ask No. 1 for while Rubashov is still on crutches?
(a) Access to better doctors
(b) The fate of Richard
(c) For a new mission overseas
(d) To be able to return to his home in Petersburg

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

12. How many minutes were the prisoners not in isolation allowed to walk outside?
(a) Fifteen minutes
(b) Thirty minutes
(c) An hour
(d) Twenty minutes

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?

2. From what does Rubashov tell Ivanov all of Ivanov’s examples are taken?

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

4. What is Rubashov dreaming about when officials come to arrest him?

5. What does Rubashov decide about Ivanov’s assertion that Ivanov wants to help Rubashov?

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