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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?
(a) To die without protest
(b) To confess even when innocent
(c) To serve without vanity
(d) To allow the younger generation to take the reins

2. What temptation does Rubashov say he has overcome?
(a) To tear down the party
(b) To challenge his accusers
(c) To renounce his confessions
(d) To ask for mercy

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

4. What does Hare-lip say Rubashov called Hare-lip’s father the last time they saw each other?
(a) A hopeless romantic
(b) A counter-revolutionary
(c) An old fool and Don Quixote
(d) A simpleton

5. What does Gletkin say about Arlova?
(a) Rubashov did not denounce her.
(b) Arlova is not really dead.
(c) She might have been innocent.
(d) She said before she died that Rubashov considered the revolution dead.

6. What does the trial audience yell when the plot to assassinate No. 1 is revealed?
(a) Shoot the mad dogs.
(b) Hail No. 1.
(c) Send them to the north.
(d) Exterminate the rats.

7. What does Rubashov know would stop the hearings?
(a) To agree to everything or to deny everything
(b) To kill himself
(c) To begin accusations against Gletkin
(d) To sleep through the hearings

8. What does the prosecutor tell Rubashov he does not have because of Arlova?
(a) No understanding of what is necessary for the revolution
(b) No regrets
(c) No moral sense
(d) The entire story

9. Why is Rubashov taken outside during one of his hearings?
(a) Gletkin is beginning to like Rubashov.
(b) He said he would not sign unless he was outside.
(c) Rubashov faints during the session.
(d) It is his exercise time.

10. What does Gletkin say is the one duty of the revolution?
(a) To not perish
(b) To save the masses
(c) To convert the world
(d) To kill any and all opposition

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

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

13. For what reason does Kieffer beg his life be spared?
(a) He was led astray by Rubashov.
(b) He is very young.
(c) He could not help who his father was.
(d) He did not mean to say any of it.

14. What sticks out of the wall above Wassilij’s head?
(a) A flue
(b) A rusty nail
(c) A water pipe
(d) A large hook

15. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?
(a) Peasants playing at government
(b) Desecrators of history
(c) Modern Neanderthalers
(d) Children with no concept of revolution

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say was the purpose of Rubashov’s confession two years previously?

2. What is the method by which Rubashov’s accusations say he was going to end No. 1’s life?

3. Where does the reader work?

4. Why does Wassilij turn his head away from the reader?

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

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