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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Rubashov dreaming about when officials come to arrest him?
(a) Leaving Russia and living in France
(b) His first arrest
(c) His first trip outside the country
(d) His wife and children who were killed

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

5. What color blouses did Arlova always wear?
(a) Black
(b) Blue
(c) White
(d) Red

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

7. What job did Rubashov hold?
(a) Politician
(b) College professor
(c) Colonel in the army
(d) Commissar of the People

8. What does Rubashov say is the one argument the party has to settle a difference of opinion?
(a) The masses are like sheep
(b) Death to opposition
(c) The state has the power
(d) The consequence is obvious

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

10. What does Richard say about the material the Party sent him to distribute?
(a) It was written very well.
(b) It had just the right tone.
(c) It was full of nonsense.
(d) It was written for the lowest of peasants.

11. Why is Rubashov allowed to remain in bed on his first morning in prison?
(a) He claims to have a toothache.
(b) The rules are not posted in his cell.
(c) He has not been processed yet.
(d) He tells them he has the flu.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say is the reason Gletkin did not give in to torture?

2. What does the doctor say is wrong with Rubashov’s tooth?

3. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?

4. What does Richard think people need to be told?

5. What was the last position Ivanov held in the military when he was over Rubashov?

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