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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color of scarf is the reader wearing?
(a) Red
(b) Checkered
(c) Blue
(d) Flowered
2. What does Gletkin say will happen in the future when the regime survives?
(a) The world will understand the need for revolution.
(b) Russia will be the dominant power in the world
(c) Prisons such as these will not exist.
(d) Rubashov and his colleagues will be given the pity and honor they deserve.
3. What does Gletkin tell Rubashov is the only way Rubashov can serve the Party now?
(a) By giving the names of those involved in the plot against No. 1
(b) By denouncing all of the old guard
(c) By denouncing Ivanov
(d) By making a full public confession to the plot to kill No. 1
4. Who does the reader sign up to marry three weeks ago?
(a) The boy next door
(b) A farmer
(c) A mechanic
(d) A police officer
5. What does Rubashov say every government measure represents?
(a) A well thought out proposition
(b) Power above the masses
(c) A necessary evil
(d) Applied philosophy
6. What does the newspaper say Rubashov answers when asked if Rubashov pleads guilty?
(a) In an intellectual sense
(b) No
(c) Yes
(d) To some charges
7. Why does Rubashov think that Gletkin has nothing to erase?
(a) He comes from a different country.
(b) He is too young.
(c) He has always obeyed the rules.
(d) He has no past.
8. On what does Rubashov say Ivanov’s loyalty to No. 1 is based?
(a) Logical considerations
(b) Friendship
(c) Patriotism
(d) Blind faith
9. What does the reader say the cell secretary asks her?
(a) If Rubashov said anything useful to Wassilij
(b) If she has signed the petition
(c) If Wassilij is a counter-revolutionary
(d) If Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end
10. What does Gletkin say was the purpose of Rubashov’s confession two years previously?
(a) To play one side against another
(b) To keep on working
(c) To stay in the Party
(d) To save his neck
11. What does Rubashov say becomes real in death?
(a) Believing in an after life
(b) Thoughts of God
(c) The metaphysical
(d) The purpose in dying
12. What does Wassilij say after he hears that Rubashov’s sentence is death?
(a) Thy will be done. Amen.
(b) So, now, they murder another innocent man.
(c) And, I, too, may be next.
(d) The government is killing the best of us.
13. Why does Wassilij think one must be cunning in life?
(a) So one can live comfortably
(b) So that one can advance
(c) So one can steer the young in a direction without the young knowing it
(d) So one does not end up in prison
14. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?
(a) It must fall within 200 years
(b) The regime must, eventually, give power to a small minority
(c) It must ultimately give in to the masses
(d) The more stable a regime is the more rigid it becomes
15. What does Hare-lip say is the what Rubashov says is the way No. 1 will no longer be in power?
(a) No. 1 will resign when he is old.
(b) No. 1 will never be removed.
(c) No. 1 will be removed by violence.
(d) No. 1 will be forced out by the Party.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Wassilij not protest the removal of Rubashov’s picture off the wall?
2. How does the reader heat water for tea?
3. What does Rubashov think the main idea about No. 1 is, that must be in a confession?
4. Who is reading the newspaper to Wassilij?
5. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?
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