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

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

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

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

6. What is the quadratic alphabet?
(a) It is a square which is filled in with letters for communicating.
(b) It is related to the way the sun hits a sundial.
(c) There is no such thing.
(d) It is the number of paces .in a cell times three divided by one half.

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

8. What does Gletkin say is the reason Gletkin did not give in to torture?
(a) He did give into torture.
(b) He has a rare disease in which his nerves do not feel pain.
(c) He fainted.
(d) He believes in Communism too strongly.

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

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

11. What does No. 1 believe justifies his harsh methods?
(a) Justification is not necessary.
(b) He is the absolute authority on everything.
(c) The past justifies the future.
(d) The ends justify the means.

12. How did Vassilij get the scar on his neck?
(a) Fighting the Germans
(b) On a hunting trip
(c) Fighting in the civil war
(d) In a farming accident with a threshing machine

13. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s accuser?
(a) The man
(b) X
(c) Someone
(d) C

14. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s emotional state?
(a) Anti-revolutionary
(b) Nervous depression
(c) Martyr complex
(d) Sentimental nonsense

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov say is the one argument the party has to settle a difference of opinion?

2. What color blouses did Arlova always wear?

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

4. What does Rubashov say is history’s mortar?

5. With what does Rubashov say he and the other leaders of the revolution replaced vision?

(see the answer keys)

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