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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does 402 say when Rubashov tells him Rubashov is capitulating?
(a) He tells Rubashov that 402 is going to do the same
(b) He tells Rubashov he is a coward
(c) 402 says he rather hang
(d) He tells Rubashov he is very brave

2. What right does the newspaper say Rubashov waived for the trial?
(a) A jury trial
(b) An advocate
(c) The right to remain silent
(d) A change of venue

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

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

5. Why does Wassilij think one must be cunning in life?
(a) So one can steer the young in a direction without the young knowing it
(b) So that one can advance
(c) So one does not end up in prison
(d) So one can live comfortably

6. 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.

7. What is the method by which Rubashov’s accusations say he was going to end No. 1’s life?
(a) Switching out his medications
(b) Long range rifle
(c) His cold lunch sandwich
(d) Poison in his nightly tea

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?
(a) The regime must, eventually, give power to a small minority
(b) It must fall within 200 years
(c) The more stable a regime is the more rigid it becomes
(d) It must ultimately give in to the masses

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Rubashov over the next several days following his first interview with Gletkin?

2. What does Gletkin say is the one duty of the revolution?

3. What does the prosecutor tell Rubashov he does not have because of Arlova?

4. What does Rubashov say has always been his motives for anything?

5. What color of scarf is the reader wearing?

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