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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Hare-lip say about Rubashov?
(a) Hare-lip has never seen Rubashov before this prison time.
(b) Rubashov conspired with Hare-lip’s father against No. 1.
(c) Rubashov tried to get Hare-lip to poison No. 1.
(d) Rubashov and Hare-lip were neighbors when Hare-lip was young.

5. What does the reader say the cell secretary asks her?
(a) If Rubashov said anything useful to Wassilij
(b) If Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end
(c) If Wassilij is a counter-revolutionary
(d) If she has signed the petition

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

7. Where does the reader work?
(a) In a factory
(b) In an office building
(c) In a store
(d) On a farm

8. 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 drinks a glass of milk.
(d) She coughs.

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

10. What color of scarf is the reader wearing?
(a) Flowered
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) Checkered

11. 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) Death is the only punishment for all crimes.
(d) Peasants are too stupid to learn on their own.

12. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?
(a) He was executed.
(b) He died of old age.
(c) He moved to Belgium.
(d) He died of a long, extended illness.

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

14. When is Rubashov taken from his cell after turning in his confession?
(a) In the afternoon of the third day
(b) At two in the morning on the third day
(c) At eight in the morning of the second day
(d) Within two hours of turning his confession over to the warder

15. What does Rubashov say the present day theorists’ job in government is?
(a) To prove that a change in course by No.1 is a revelation of philosophy
(b) To show the party where the people must be manipulated
(c) To render the laws comprehensible
(d) To take the philosophy of government and make it practical

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov say becomes real in death?

2. What does the prosecutor interrupt Rubashov to ask?

3. What does Rubashov remember he had read about the universe?

4. What does Rubashov feel is one of the worst degradation during his interviews with Gletkin?

5. What did Wassilij hide in his mattress?

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