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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 does Rubashov say is history’s mortar?
(a) War, deception and power
(b) Blood, mud, and lies
(c) Belief, blood and bravery
(d) Lies, soap, and religion

2. How does Rubashov become deaf?
(a) He was born deaf in one ear.
(b) He is hit behind the ear with a pistol.
(c) He ran artillery in the army.
(d) He had scarlet fever when he was a boy.

3. What kind of stories did the prisoner in cell 402 often tell?
(a) Stories of his girlfriends
(b) Stories of his life in America
(c) Anecdotes about the officer’s mess
(d) Anecdotes about his father, a blacksmith

4. What color blouses did Arlova always wear?
(a) White
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) Black

5. What happened to Arlova?
(a) She was executed.
(b) She married an Englishman and moved.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She died after a long illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does Rubashov tell Ivanov all of Ivanov’s examples are taken?

2. What does Rubashov say is the one argument the party has to settle a difference of opinion?

3. How many minutes were the prisoners not in isolation allowed to walk outside?

4. How many paces is Rubashov’s cell?

5. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

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

4. What is Rubashov’s relationship to Arlova and what happens to her?

5. Why is the agriculturist killed?

6. Why does Rubashov feel guilty about Arlova’s death?

7. What does Rubashov tell the warden when he is asked why he is not out of bed? What is the warden’s reply?

8. What does Ivanov present to Rubashov during their first interview?

9. What is Rubashov thinking by the time Ivanov leaves him the morning after Bogrov is killed?

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

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