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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ivanov call all the deaths that have occurred since the revolution?
(a) Giving mankind a new skin
(b) Blood to build a strong future
(c) Collateral damage
(d) Deaths to fertilize the possibilities

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

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

6. What does Rubashov decide about Ivanov’s assertion that Ivanov wants to help Rubashov?
(a) He does not mean it
(b) He is using it as a manipulation
(c) He feels ashamed that Rubashov saved his life
(d) Ivanov is sincere in his desire to help Rubashov

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Rubashov say is the reason he is lost?
(a) He no longer believes himself infallible.
(b) He fought for the wrong cause.
(c) He now knows the revolution has a self-centered person at the head.
(d) He realizes they are going to shoot him.

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

14. What makes Rubashov think the games are played too well in the Trade delegation?
(a) The diplomats speak French
(b) The diplomats wear American suits
(c) It is almost impossible to separate appearance from reality
(d) It is possible to choose who is going to what country from appearance

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?

2. What does Rubashov think the barber looks like?

3. Why does Gletkin think no human can resist torture?

4. With what was Rubashov’s suitcase filled when he met a man in southern Germany in 1933?

5. To what round is Rubashov attached for daily exercise?

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