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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rubashov ask for a recess for a few minutes?
(a) He needs to consult his attorney.
(b) He needs to consult his notes.
(c) He has a toothache.
(d) He has a headache.

2. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?
(a) He moved to Belgium.
(b) He died of a long, extended illness.
(c) He was executed.
(d) He died of old age.

3. What does Rubashov think is the real reason he is innocent of all charges?
(a) He would never over-throw a government he helped put in place
(b) He is too old to care about another revolution
(c) His entire life has been dedicated to the party
(d) Gletkin is not even smart enough to understand Rubashov’s thinking process

4. What does Rubashov do with his confession before supper?
(a) He flushes it down the john
(b) He tears it up
(c) He reads it again and makes two corrections
(d) He hands it to a guard

5. What did Rubashov talk about with a diplomat of a foreign power which Gletkin says was a conversation to get a foreign power to overthrow the government?
(a) Guinea pigs
(b) Agriculture
(c) Horses
(d) His father’s farm

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

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

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

9. What does Rubashov say he will explain to the judges?
(a) Why No. 1 is not fit to rule the country
(b) What led him to capitulate to the investigating magistrate
(c) What types of counter-revolutionary movements he led
(d) Why the revolution has failed

10. What does Rubashov think Gletkin represents?
(a) The state’s desire to control all people
(b) The actual counter-revolution
(c) The brutal embodiment of state.
(d) The harmful effect of promoting peasants

11. Why does Rubashov think that Gletkin has nothing to erase?
(a) He has always obeyed the rules.
(b) He has no past.
(c) He is too young.
(d) He comes from a different country.

12. What does the reader ask Wassilij before Wassilij signs the petition?
(a) If he wants her to sign right below him
(b) If he thinks the petition can save him
(c) If he is angry at Rubashov
(d) If he wants her to read the petition to him

13. What does Rubashov’s new exercise partner call himself?
(a) A reactionary
(b) A desert dweller
(c) A counter-revolutionary
(d) A stubborn farmer

14. Why does Wassilij not protest the removal of Rubashov’s picture off the wall?
(a) He is angry at Rubash.
(b) He is too old to go to prison.
(c) He is too sad to look at the picture
(d) He does not care one way or the other.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hare-lip say Rubashov called Hare-lip’s father the last time they saw each other?

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

4. What right does Rubashov forgo concerning Kieffer?

5. What is something Rubashov notices about his body shortly before they shoot him?

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