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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?
(a) Astronomy
(b) Engineering
(c) Law
(d) Medicine

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

4. What is the one charge against Rubashov which is dropped?
(a) Inciting a foreign diplomat to act against the government
(b) Embezzling from party funds
(c) Sabotage of the aluminum trust
(d) Wanting to poison No. 1

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

6. What does the reader ask Wassilij before Wassilij signs the petition?
(a) If he thinks the petition can save him
(b) If he wants her to sign right below him
(c) If he is angry at Rubashov
(d) If he wants her to read the petition to him

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

8. What does the newspaper say is the type of evidence against Rubashov?
(a) Recorded conversations with terrorists
(b) Rubashov’s confession and documentary evidence
(c) It is not said what the evidence is
(d) Documents accumulated over a three year period

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. What does the resolution that the reader signed demand?
(a) That a new trial take place for Rubashov
(b) That Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(c) That Rubashov be exterminated
(d) That Rubashov be released

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is something Rubashov notices about his body shortly before they shoot him?

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

4. What does Rubashov’s new exercise partner call himself?

5. What does Wassilij think about when the reader reads about the recess?

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