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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gletkin tell Rubashov is the only way Rubashov can serve the Party now?
(a) By denouncing all of the old guard
(b) By making a full public confession to the plot to kill No. 1
(c) By denouncing Ivanov
(d) By giving the names of those involved in the plot against No. 1

3. What does the newspaper say is the type of evidence against Rubashov?
(a) It is not said what the evidence is
(b) Rubashov’s confession and documentary evidence
(c) Documents accumulated over a three year period
(d) Recorded conversations with terrorists

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

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

6. What does Rubashov think about when he is thinking about suffering?
(a) All suffering is good for the soul
(b) Suffering is bad for the advancement of humanity
(c) There is a difference between pointless and meaningful suffering.
(d) Suffering is the only thing the revolution has not eliminated

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

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

9. 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

10. What worries Wassilij about contradicting the reader?
(a) She might quit reading the paper to him.
(b) She might think badly of him.
(c) She may not speak with him again.
(d) She might turn him in for it.

11. Who appoints the examining magistrate?
(a) The authorities
(b) No. 1
(c) The local party chairman
(d) The warden

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

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

14. What does the prosecutor demand at the end of his speech?
(a) Rubashov receive the death penalty
(b) Two of the charges be dropped
(c) Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(d) Rubashov receive life in prison

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?

2. Why did Rubashov not recognize Hare-lip’s name?

3. What does Rubashov know would stop the hearings?

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

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

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