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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov think is the reason Gletkin reads in a monotone?
(a) Gletkin learned to read late in life.
(b) He is trying to make the accusations difficult to understand.
(c) He is trying to make Rubashov sleepy.
(d) Gletkin does not want Rubashov to hear what Gletkin is reading.

2. What does Rubashov remember he had read about the universe?
(a) The universe a part of God.
(b) The universe is within the earth.
(c) The universe is finite.
(d) The universe is infinite.

3. What does Rubashov say he meant by acting by violence?
(a) He meant by political violence
(b) He meant terrorism
(c) He meant civil war
(d) He meant by violent speech

4. 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) Peasants are too stupid to learn on their own.
(c) Peasants had to learn in ten years what most in other countries learned in 200 years.
(d) Rules are the only way for a country to know they are doing a good job.

5. What does the reader say the cell secretary asks her?
(a) If Rubashov said anything useful to Wassilij
(b) If Wassilij is a counter-revolutionary
(c) If she has signed the petition
(d) If Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end

6. How does the reader heat water for tea?
(a) On a Primus stove
(b) In a pot hanging in the fireplace
(c) On the electric stove
(d) On a hotplate

7. What does Rubashov say can take the nothingness out of dying?
(a) Knowing that death is not the end
(b) Religion
(c) Love
(d) Being reconciled to the party

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

9. Who is in the room to which Rubashov is taken for his third hearing?
(a) Gletkin
(b) Gletkin and Ivanov
(c) Ivanov
(d) Gletkin and a secretary

10. What is the method by which Rubashov’s accusations say he was going to end No. 1’s life?
(a) His cold lunch sandwich
(b) Poison in his nightly tea
(c) Long range rifle
(d) Switching out his medications

11. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?
(a) Emotion
(b) Religion
(c) Government
(d) Cleverness

12. Who is reading the newspaper to Wassilij?
(a) His wife
(b) His daughter
(c) His sister
(d) His neighbor

13. What does Rubashov say every government measure represents?
(a) Power above the masses
(b) A well thought out proposition
(c) A necessary evil
(d) Applied philosophy

14. What does the prosecutor interrupt Rubashov to ask?
(a) If he is going to say anything against the revolution
(b) If he plans to take a long time
(c) To ask him questions about Arlova
(d) To ask him about his time overseas

15. What does Rubashov think the main idea about No. 1 is, that must be in a confession?
(a) That No. 1 holds the death as well as the life of every person in the republic
(b) That No. 1 is a dictator
(c) That the power does rest with No. 1
(d) That No. 1 is infallible

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rubashov ask for a recess for a few minutes?

2. What does Rubashov realize he missed right after breakfast?

3. Where does the reader work?

4. Why doesn’t Wassiij hear the prosecutor’s speech as it is read?

5. What right does the newspaper say Rubashov waived for the trial?

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