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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rubashov think Gletkin represents?
(a) The actual counter-revolution
(b) The harmful effect of promoting peasants
(c) The state’s desire to control all people
(d) The brutal embodiment of state.

3. What does Rubashov say becomes real in death?
(a) Thoughts of God
(b) The metaphysical
(c) The purpose in dying
(d) Believing in an after life

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

5. What does the reader do as she reads the newspaper to Wassilij?
(a) She bends over closely as she has no glasses.
(b) She follows the lines with a finger.
(c) She coughs.
(d) She drinks a glass of milk.

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

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

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

9. 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 denouncing Ivanov
(c) By denouncing all of the old guard
(d) By giving the names of those involved in the plot against No. 1

10. What does Rubashov realize about his position with Gletkin?
(a) Gletkin hates Rubashov.
(b) Gletkin wants to do away with the old guard.
(c) Gletkin is much younger than Rubashov.
(d) Rubashov has as much power as Gletkin.

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

12. Why does Rubashov make the speech he makes?
(a) He realizes he no longer cares.
(b) He has been guaranteed life in prison.
(c) He realizes it is too late for anything else.
(d) He wants to preserve the republic.

13. Why did Rubashov not recognize Hare-lip’s name?
(a) He did not know Hare-lip’s real name
(b) He is too sleepy to think
(c) He only knew Hare-lip’s father by his father’s writing name
(d) Hare-lip has a different name from his father

14. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?
(a) Cleverness
(b) Religion
(c) Emotion
(d) Government

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn’t Wassiij hear the prosecutor’s speech as it is read?

2. What does the reader ask Wassilij before Wassilij signs the petition?

3. What does Wassilij ask the reader about the petition she has?

4. What does Wassilij say to the reader about Rubashov declaring himself a traitor?

5. What temptation does Rubashov say he has overcome?

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