View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Rubashov is lying in his cell the first morning, what does he think will happen to him?
(a) He will be in prison for several years.
(b) He will be shot.
(c) He will be released.
(d) He will be sent to Siberia.

2. Who reads the newspaper to Vassilij?
(a) His daughter
(b) No one, he reads them himself
(c) His son
(d) His wife

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

4. What does Rubashov need in order to get cigarettes?
(a) A connection with the top prisoner
(b) Prison vouchers
(c) Money
(d) A visiting relative

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

6. 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

7. What does the agriculturist who is killed believe is the best fertilizer?
(a) Silt from the river basin
(b) Cow manure
(c) Potash
(d) Nitrate artificial fertilizer

8. 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 new German Audit
(d) A French Peugeot

9. To whom is Richard’s sister-in-law married?
(a) The mayor of Ludenberg
(b) A police constable
(c) Johann Rupenstein
(d) Petier Von Luntz

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

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

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

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

14. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?
(a) Writes articles for party magazines
(b) He is a dockworker
(c) Writes novels
(d) He is a banker

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the barber put under Rubashov’s collar?

2. What does Ivanov call all the deaths that have occurred since the revolution?

3. What does Rubashov want to ask the warden for when they arrive at his cell?

4. What profession did No. 406 have?

5. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 581 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample