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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 the doctor say is wrong with Rubashov’s tooth?
(a) There is nothing wrong with his tooth.
(b) His eye-tooth is broken off at the root.
(c) His tooth has been chipped.
(d) It needs a filling.

2. Ivanov believes that he is what kind of person? What kind of person does Ivanov believe Gletkin to be?
(a) Ivanov is a cynic and Ivanov is a moralist.
(b) Gletkin is a stoic and Ivanov is soft
(c) Gletkin is a cynic and Ivanov is a moralist
(d) Ivanov is a "by the books" and Gletkin is spontaneous.

3. What was Rubashov’s friends’ rationale for convincing him not to help Arlova?
(a) Rubashov cannot change the system if he is kicked out of the system
(b) That Rubashov is more valuable to the revolution
(c) You can’t save them all
(d) That she was obviously doing something wrong

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

5. What does Rubashov think the barber looks like?
(a) An actor
(b) A farmer
(c) A mechanic or locksmith
(d) His former brother-in-law

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rubashov become deaf?

2. What relative of Arlova’s was arrested over there?

3. What does Bill, a man Little Loewy and Rubashov meet, do for a living?

4. What does Richard think people need to be told?

5. What picture hangs over Rubashov’s bed at home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Rubashov take the taxi when he leaves Richard? What does the driver do when they arrive there?

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

8. How does Rubashov prepare for his first interrogation when he thinks they may use the steambath on him?

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

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

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