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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. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?
(a) Spinning coins over his knuckles
(b) Pulling carrots out of hats
(c) Moving his hat with his ears
(d) Telling a person’s weight by looking at them

2. What job did Rubashov hold?
(a) College professor
(b) Commissar of the People
(c) Politician
(d) Colonel in the army

3. What does 406 draw for Rubashov one day when exercising?
(a) A map of the area
(b) A picture of the prison
(c) A picture of No. 1
(d) A picture of his wife

4. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?
(a) Politicians will always be corrupt
(b) The ends justifies the means
(c) The masses do not know what is good for them
(d) Politics and religion do not mix

5. What does Rubashov think about the Party’s results after he runs out of cigarettes?
(a) The Party could not foresee the results.
(b) The Party was completely wrong.
(c) The principles were right, the results wrong.
(d) The results were right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car do the officials drive who come to arrest Rubashov?

2. What was the last position Ivanov held in the military when he was over Rubashov?

3. In the car, what does Rubashov tell the younger official the official should study?

4. With what was Rubashov’s suitcase filled when he met a man in southern Germany in 1933?

5. What was Richard’s trade?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rubashov pass his time in the his cell?

2. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

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

4. What does Rubashov daydream about on his seventh day in prison?

5. What happens to Rubashov the first time he is imprisoned?

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

7. How does Rubashov respond to the evidence and charges Ivanov presents? What is Ivanov’s response?

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

9. Whom does Rubashov watch the guards escort down the hallway after Rubashov’s flashback? What does the man look like?

10. What is Rubashov’s flashback about after he is told he will get no breakfast?

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