View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov feel is one of the worst degradation during his interviews with Gletkin?
(a) When he has to ask to relieve himself
(b) When he has to talk with his eyes closed
(c) When he falls asleep
(d) When he falls off a chair

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

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

4. What right does Rubashov forgo concerning Kieffer?
(a) He does not forgo any right.
(b) The right to have Kieffer produce concrete documents
(c) The right to ask Kieffer questions
(d) The right to have Kieffer executed first

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

6. What does Wallilij do occasionally as he listens to the newspaper account?
(a) Paces the floor
(b) Mumbles
(c) Tells her to stop for a moment
(d) Shouts a curse

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

8. What does Wassilij think about when the reader reads about the recess?
(a) Rubashov leading the charge when he was head of the battalion
(b) Wassilij telling Rubashov not to capitulate
(c) Wassilij talking late into the night with Rubashov
(d) Rubashov returning on crutches from a foreign country

9. 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 Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end
(d) If she has signed the petition

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

11. What does Rubashov say is suicide for the revolution?
(a) Humanitarian weakness when the masses are not mature
(b) To question whether humans are good
(c) Saving a country by saving people
(d) Deciding that death is better than prison

12. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?
(a) The young army officer
(b) Prisoner 402
(c) Rip Van Wrinkle
(d) A thin peasant with bast shoes

13. Who does the reader sign up to marry three weeks ago?
(a) The boy next door
(b) A mechanic
(c) A farmer
(d) A police officer

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say about Arlova?

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

3. What does the prosecutor ask Rubashov about counter-revolutionary movements?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 701 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample