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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ivanov arrested?
(a) He is a friend of Rubashov’s
(b) He spoke out against No. 1
(c) He conducted Rubashov’s interview negligently
(d) He advocates overthrow of the government

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Wassilij think one must be cunning in life?
(a) So that one can advance
(b) So one can steer the young in a direction without the young knowing it
(c) So one does not end up in prison
(d) So one can live comfortably

7. What does Wassilij think about when the reader reads about the recess?
(a) Rubashov leading the charge when he was head of the battalion
(b) Wassilij talking late into the night with Rubashov
(c) Rubashov returning on crutches from a foreign country
(d) Wassilij telling Rubashov not to capitulate

8. Who does the reader sign up to marry three weeks ago?
(a) A police officer
(b) A farmer
(c) A mechanic
(d) The boy next door

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Rubashov realize he missed right after breakfast?
(a) The usual phrase from cell 406
(b) Having a second cup of coffee
(c) Talking to Ivanov
(d) The bugle calling wake-up

15. What does Rubashov think the best of them do when condemned to die?
(a) They still try to take down the government.
(b) They blame the state.
(c) They stay silent.
(d) They try to get in some political points in their last speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say will happen in the future when the regime survives?

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

3. What does Hare-lip say is the what Rubashov says is the way No. 1 will no longer be in power?

4. What does Rubashov say has always been his motives for anything?

5. What does Rubashov say he will explain to the judges?

(see the answer keys)

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