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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Vassilij get the scar on his neck?
(a) Fighting in the civil war
(b) Fighting the Germans
(c) On a hunting trip
(d) In a farming accident with a threshing machine

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

3. According to Rubashov, how much time has passed since he slept with a woman?
(a) One year
(b) A month
(c) Two weeks
(d) Three weeks

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

5. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?
(a) Stand at the spy hole and drum
(b) Tap on the door the code for rest in peace, over and over
(c) Sing a hymn
(d) Yell anti-government slogans

6. What does Richard think people need to be told?
(a) The Party is strong and growing.
(b) The people need to be told the truth.
(c) Richard does not have an opinion on what to tell the people
(d) The Party’s will determination is unbeatable.

7. Why does Rubashov feel sorry for Prisoner 402?
(a) 402 will not be killed but imprisoned for the rest of his life
(b) Rubashov does not feel sorry for 402
(c) 402 is very young
(d) 402 is not allowed outside

8. When No. 402 proclaims the emperor, what does Rubashov say to him?
(a) Don’t say that so loud.
(b) The emperor is dead.
(c) Amen.
(d) I agree.

9. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?
(a) Moving his hat with his ears
(b) Pulling carrots out of hats
(c) Telling a person’s weight by looking at them
(d) Spinning coins over his knuckles

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

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

12. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?
(a) Anecdotes about the officer’s mess
(b) Anecdotes about his father, a blacksmith
(c) Stories of his life in America
(d) Stories of his girlfriends

13. What is the name of Richard’s wife?
(a) Kathryn
(b) Bonnie
(c) Genevieve
(d) Anny

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

15. What book does Ivanov say should never have been written?
(a) Crime and Punishment
(b) Anna Karenina
(c) War and Peace
(d) The Gulag Archipelago

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car do the officials drive who come to arrest Rubashov?

2. What does Rubashov shout out his door as the breakfast crew is leaving his hallway?

3. Who reads the newspaper to Vassilij?

4. What does 406 say is the reason he is in prison?

5. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s emotional state?

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