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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many minutes were the prisoners not in isolation allowed to walk outside?
(a) Thirty minutes
(b) Fifteen minutes
(c) An hour
(d) Twenty minutes

2. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?
(a) The cinema operator
(b) No one
(c) A Party chairman
(d) Richard’s brother

3. To whom is Richard’s sister-in-law married?
(a) Johann Rupenstein
(b) A police constable
(c) The mayor of Ludenberg
(d) Petier Von Luntz

4. With what does Rubashov say he and the other leaders of the revolution replaced vision?
(a) Hard work
(b) Nothing, vision was never discussed
(c) Logical deduction
(d) A specific set of laws

5. What are the two types of cases that could be used in court for Rubashov?
(a) C and T
(b) P and A
(c) V and A
(d) T and P

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Arlova?

2. What message does Rubashov receive about what he should do when his trial is over?

3. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?

4. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?

5. What does Richard say about the material the Party sent him to distribute?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Little Loewy tell Rubashov about Loewy’s life?

2. What does Gletkin consider to be the best methods for getting confessions out of prisoners? Why does he feel this way?

3. What is in the cell in which Rubashov is locked at the beginning of the book?

4. Why does Rubashov think he is unable to hate No. 1?

5. What does Ivanov tell Rubashov the day after Bogrov is killed?

6. Why did Ivanov want to commit suicide at one point and how did Rubashov help him?

7. How does rub meet Prisoner 406 and what does the 406 show Rubashov?

8. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

9. What does Rubashov do after he is told he will get no breakfast?

10. What book does Rubashov say No. 1 has sitting on his desk at all times? Why does No. 1 have the book?

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