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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 Gletkin say is the reason Gletkin did not give in to torture?
(a) He believes in Communism too strongly.
(b) He fainted.
(c) He has a rare disease in which his nerves do not feel pain.
(d) He did give into torture.

2. What does No. 402 tell Rubashov after Rubashov reveals his name?
(a) Why are you here?
(b) Serves you right.
(c) I am innocent.
(d) How the mighty doth fall.

3. How did Little Loewy die?
(a) He was shot by a Party member.
(b) He fell off a ship.
(c) A heavy crate fell on him while unloading a ship.
(d) He hanged himself.

4. What is wrong with Ivanov’s bad leg?
(a) It is artificial.
(b) It is shorter than the other.
(c) The knee is frozen.
(d) It is full of shrapnel.

5. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s emotional state?
(a) Nervous depression
(b) Martyr complex
(c) Sentimental nonsense
(d) Anti-revolutionary

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?

3. What is the last thing prisoner 380 yelled as he is pulled down the corridor?

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

5. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Ivanov say is the reason Rubashov will not capitulate with Gletkin’s method?

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

9. Why does Rubashov question Richard and what does Rubashov tell Richard?

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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