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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Gletkin think no human can resist torture?
(a) The human spirit is limited by the physical nervous system.
(b) Humans are inherently self-centered.
(c) No human believes anything that strongly.
(d) There is nothing worth dying for.

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

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

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

7. What book does No. 1 keep on his desk at all times?
(a) Spartan and Liberty
(b) The Prince
(c) Justice Poetics
(d) The Communist Manifesto

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

9. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?
(a) That she was obviously doing something wrong
(b) You can’t save them all
(c) That Rubashov is more valuable to the revolution
(d) Rubashov cannot change the system if he is kicked out of the system

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

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

12. What is the last thing prisoner 380 yelled as he is pulled down the corridor?
(a) Stalin devil
(b) Rubashov
(c) The revolution is dead
(d) Death to No. 1

13. With what was Rubashov’s suitcase filled when he met a man in southern Germany in 1933?
(a) Guns and ammunition
(b) Pamphlets against the party
(c) Dental equipment novelties
(d) New clothes and passports

14. What picture hangs over Rubashov’s bed at home?
(a) A picture of No. 1
(b) A picture of the Red army taking over the tsar’s palace
(c) A picture of a vacation spot in France
(d) A picture of his family

15. What does Ivanov say are the two conceptions of human ethics?
(a) Humane and collective aim
(b) Humane and inhumane
(c) Natural and man-made
(d) Christian and humane

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanov say is incompatible with social progress?

2. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s accuser?

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

4. What color blouses did Arlova always wear?

5. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?

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