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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov call the light in the room where his third hearing is held?
(a) An intimidation light
(b) A torture device
(c) A dazzle-light
(d) An interrogation beam

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

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

4. What does Rubashov say is suicide for the revolution?
(a) Humanitarian weakness when the masses are not mature
(b) Saving a country by saving people
(c) Deciding that death is better than prison
(d) To question whether humans are good

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

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

7. What does Rubashov think is the reason Gletkin reads in a monotone?
(a) He is trying to make Rubashov sleepy.
(b) Gletkin does not want Rubashov to hear what Gletkin is reading.
(c) Gletkin learned to read late in life.
(d) He is trying to make the accusations difficult to understand.

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

9. What does Gletkin say is the reason peasants in industrial positions should be shot for even minor infractions of the law?
(a) Peasants had to learn in ten years what most in other countries learned in 200 years.
(b) Rules are the only way for a country to know they are doing a good job.
(c) Death is the only punishment for all crimes.
(d) Peasants are too stupid to learn on their own.

10. What does Rubashov do with his confession before supper?
(a) He reads it again and makes two corrections
(b) He tears it up
(c) He hands it to a guard
(d) He flushes it down the john

11. What right does Rubashov forgo concerning Kieffer?
(a) The right to ask Kieffer questions
(b) The right to have Kieffer produce concrete documents
(c) The right to have Kieffer executed first
(d) He does not forgo any right.

12. What does Wassilij say to the reader about Rubashov declaring himself a traitor?
(a) He will rot in hell
(b) He was probably tortured
(c) She does not understand about any of it
(d) He is not a traitor

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

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

15. What does the newspaper say Rubashov answers when asked if Rubashov pleads guilty?
(a) In an intellectual sense
(b) No
(c) To some charges
(d) Yes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Wassilij turn his head away from the reader?

3. Where does the reader work?

4. Who appoints the examining magistrate?

5. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?

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