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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gletkin say was the purpose of Rubashov’s confession two years previously?
(a) To keep on working
(b) To stay in the Party
(c) To save his neck
(d) To play one side against another

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

3. On what does Rubashov say Ivanov’s loyalty to No. 1 is based?
(a) Patriotism
(b) Friendship
(c) Logical considerations
(d) Blind faith

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

5. What did Wassilij hide in his mattress?
(a) A Bible
(b) A gun
(c) A picture of Lenin
(d) A new passport

6. Why does Wassilij turn his head away from the reader?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He does not want her to see him cry.
(c) He does not want her to see him coughing up blood.
(d) He has contradicted her and has not done such for a long time.

7. What sticks out of the wall above Wassilij’s head?
(a) A flue
(b) A rusty nail
(c) A large hook
(d) A water pipe

8. What does Gletkin say about Arlova?
(a) She said before she died that Rubashov considered the revolution dead.
(b) Rubashov did not denounce her.
(c) Arlova is not really dead.
(d) She might have been innocent.

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

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

11. What does the prosecutor demand at the end of his speech?
(a) Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(b) Rubashov receive the death penalty
(c) Two of the charges be dropped
(d) Rubashov receive life in prison

12. Who is in the room to which Rubashov is taken for his third hearing?
(a) Ivanov
(b) Gletkin
(c) Gletkin and Ivanov
(d) Gletkin and a secretary

13. What does Rubashov remember he had read about the universe?
(a) The universe is finite.
(b) The universe is within the earth.
(c) The universe a part of God.
(d) The universe is infinite.

14. Why does Wassilij not protest the removal of Rubashov’s picture off the wall?
(a) He is angry at Rubash.
(b) He is too old to go to prison.
(c) He does not care one way or the other.
(d) He is too sad to look at the picture

15. Between what does Rubashov’s condition alternate during the hearing?
(a) Anger and apathy
(b) Peace and agitation
(c) Apathy and an unnatural wakefulness
(d) Indifference and rage

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the reader work?

2. Why is Ivanov arrested?

3. What does Hare-lip say Rubashov called Hare-lip’s father the last time they saw each other?

4. From where does Rubashov’s new exercise partner come?

5. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?

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