Darkness at Noon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Darkness at Noon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Little Loewy smoke?
(a) Cigarettes
(b) Cigars
(c) A corncob pipe
(d) A sailor’s pipe

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

3. How did Little Loewy die?
(a) He was shot by a Party member.
(b) A heavy crate fell on him while unloading a ship.
(c) He hanged himself.
(d) He fell off a ship.

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

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

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

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

8. How much did Rubashov have to pay for the taxi ride he took when he left Richard?
(a) Ten dollars
(b) Twenty marks
(c) Nothing
(d) Thirty rubles

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

10. What does Ivanov say Rubashov will do when Gletkin asks Ivanov in the canteen?
(a) Rubashov will capitulate to Ivanov’s request
(b) Rubashov will denounce No. 1
(c) Rubashov will stand firm in his convictions
(d) Ivanov tells Gletkin he does not know what Rubashov will do

11. What does 402 tell Rubashov is happening the night the prison feels different?
(a) The prison guards are being changed
(b) He does not know what is happening
(c) Political differences are being settled
(d) Sympathizers are going to break into the prison

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

13. What is wrong with Ivanov’s bad leg?
(a) It is full of shrapnel.
(b) It is artificial.
(c) The knee is frozen.
(d) It is shorter than the other.

14. With what does Rubashov say wrong ideas must be punished?
(a) Prison terms
(b) Isolation and torture
(c) Death
(d) Re-education

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does No. 1 believe justifies his harsh methods?

2. What does No. 402 call No. 406?

3. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?

4. What was Richard’s trade?

5. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?

(see the answer keys)

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