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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gletkin say will happen in the future when the regime survives?
(a) Prisons such as these will not exist.
(b) The world will understand the need for revolution.
(c) Rubashov and his colleagues will be given the pity and honor they deserve.
(d) Russia will be the dominant power in the world

2. What did Wassilij hide in his mattress?
(a) A Bible
(b) A picture of Lenin
(c) A gun
(d) A new passport

3. What makes Wassilij start to cough?
(a) Sitting up too fast
(b) From smoking a cigarette
(c) Drinking tea that is too hot
(d) To stop himself from saying too much

4. What does Wassilij say to the reader about Rubashov declaring himself a traitor?
(a) He was probably tortured
(b) She does not understand about any of it
(c) He will rot in hell
(d) He is not a traitor

5. Why did Rubashov not recognize Hare-lip’s name?
(a) He did not know Hare-lip’s real name
(b) He only knew Hare-lip’s father by his father’s writing name
(c) Hare-lip has a different name from his father
(d) He is too sleepy to think

6. What happens to Rubashov over the next several days following his first interview with Gletkin?
(a) He is left alone
(b) He is taken to court for his trial
(c) He is moved to a different part of the prison
(d) He is taken in for cross-examination with little sleep

7. What does Rubashov call the light in the room where his third hearing is held?
(a) An intimidation light
(b) An interrogation beam
(c) A dazzle-light
(d) A torture device

8. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?
(a) The more stable a regime is the more rigid it becomes
(b) The regime must, eventually, give power to a small minority
(c) It must ultimately give in to the masses
(d) It must fall within 200 years

9. What does Hare-lip say about Rubashov?
(a) Rubashov and Hare-lip were neighbors when Hare-lip was young.
(b) Hare-lip has never seen Rubashov before this prison time.
(c) Rubashov conspired with Hare-lip’s father against No. 1.
(d) Rubashov tried to get Hare-lip to poison No. 1.

10. Between what does Rubashov’s condition alternate during the hearing?
(a) Peace and agitation
(b) Anger and apathy
(c) Indifference and rage
(d) Apathy and an unnatural wakefulness

11. What does Gletkin say was the purpose of Rubashov’s confession two years previously?
(a) To play one side against another
(b) To stay in the Party
(c) To save his neck
(d) To keep on working

12. What does Gletkin say is the reason peasants in industrial positions should be shot for even minor infractions of the law?
(a) Death is the only punishment for all crimes.
(b) Rules are the only way for a country to know they are doing a good job.
(c) Peasants had to learn in ten years what most in other countries learned in 200 years.
(d) Peasants are too stupid to learn on their own.

13. When is Rubashov taken from his cell after turning in his confession?
(a) Within two hours of turning his confession over to the warder
(b) At two in the morning on the third day
(c) In the afternoon of the third day
(d) At eight in the morning of the second day

14. What does the resolution that the reader signed demand?
(a) That a new trial take place for Rubashov
(b) That Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(c) That Rubashov be released
(d) That Rubashov be exterminated

15. What does the prosecutor demand at the end of his speech?
(a) Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(b) Rubashov receive the death penalty
(c) Rubashov receive life in prison
(d) Two of the charges be dropped

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?

2. What does Gletkin say is the one duty of the revolution?

3. What does Rubashov say the present day theorists’ job in government is?

4. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?

5. What does the newspaper say is the type of evidence against Rubashov?

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