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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens in the trade delegation library shortly before the second great trial of the opposition?
(a) There is no library in the trade building
(b) Most of the written material is taken and replaced
(c) The library is shut down
(d) The library is burned

4. What does the officer handing out breakfast tell the warden is missing in Rubashov’s cell?
(a) A chair at the desk
(b) A mop for the floor
(c) Soap at the sink
(d) A towel

5. What does No. 402 call No. 406?
(a) Julius Caesar
(b) Dumb as rocks
(c) Rip Van Wrinkle
(d) Something Man

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

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

8. What does Rubashov want to ask the warden for when they arrive at his cell?
(a) Wool socks
(b) An extra blanket
(c) Paper to write a letter
(d) Some coffee

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

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

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

12. What is the name of Richard’s wife?
(a) Bonnie
(b) Kathryn
(c) Genevieve
(d) Anny

13. In the car, what does Rubashov tell the younger official the official should study?
(a) World events
(b) The Party's history
(c) How to get people on your side
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What relative of Arlova’s was arrested over there?

3. What does Rubashov think the barber looks like?

4. Why does Gletkin think no human can resist torture?

5. What book does Ivanov say should never have been written?

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