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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 the best of them do when condemned to die?
(a) They stay silent.
(b) They blame the state.
(c) They still try to take down the government.
(d) They try to get in some political points in their last speech.

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

3. 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) Horses
(b) His father’s farm
(c) Agriculture
(d) Guinea pigs

4. Why does Wassilij turn his head away from the reader?
(a) He does not want her to see him cry.
(b) He does not want her to see him coughing up blood.
(c) He has contradicted her and has not done such for a long time.
(d) He is depressed.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Wassilij ask the reader about the petition she has?
(a) If she plans to sign it
(b) If the civil war veterans are required to sign it
(c) If the boy she plans to marry has signed it
(d) If she brought it there for him to sign

10. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?
(a) Engineering
(b) Astronomy
(c) Law
(d) Medicine

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

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

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

14. Why doesn’t Wassiij hear the prosecutor’s speech as it is read?
(a) He is daydreaming.
(b) He has fallen asleep.
(c) He has put a pillow over his head.
(d) He has left the room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what does Rubashov’s condition alternate during the hearing?

2. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?

3. Why does Rubashov think that Gletkin has nothing to erase?

4. What does Wassilij say after he hears that Rubashov’s sentence is death?

5. What does the prosecutor interrupt Rubashov to ask?

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