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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. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?
(a) The young army officer
(b) A thin peasant with bast shoes
(c) Rip Van Wrinkle
(d) Prisoner 402

2. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?
(a) Medicine
(b) Astronomy
(c) Law
(d) Engineering

3. What does Hare-lip say about Rubashov?
(a) Hare-lip has never seen Rubashov before this prison time.
(b) Rubashov and Hare-lip were neighbors when Hare-lip was young.
(c) Rubashov conspired with Hare-lip’s father against No. 1.
(d) Rubashov tried to get Hare-lip to poison No. 1.

4. What does the reader say the cell secretary asks her?
(a) If Wassilij is a counter-revolutionary
(b) If Rubashov said anything useful to Wassilij
(c) If Wassilij and Rubashov stayed friends to the end
(d) If she has signed the petition

5. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?
(a) To confess even when innocent
(b) To serve without vanity
(c) To allow the younger generation to take the reins
(d) To die without protest

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the newspaper say Rubashov answers when asked if Rubashov pleads guilty?

2. Why is Rubashov taken outside during one of his hearings?

3. What does 402 say when Rubashov tells him Rubashov is capitulating?

4. What does Gletkin say is the one duty of the revolution?

5. What does the logic of history say must happen in a regime?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rubashov’s response about Arlova when the prosecutor asks about her? What does the prosecutor say to Rubashov about Arlova?

2. To what other charges does Rubashov concede? What is the one charge that is dropped?

3. What does Rubashov realize about his relationship with Gletkin? Why does he think this?

4. Why is Rubashov confused after he hands over his confession?

5. What does Wassilij’s daughter tell him about the petition at work?

6. When Rubashov begins to address the court, what does he say he will talk about?

7. How does Rubashov respond to Hare-lip’s accusations?

8. With whom does Gletkin confront Rubashov and with what charge?

9. What does Rubashov confess to in the beginning? What is Gletkin’s response to this?

10. What is the result of Gletkin’s pushing Rubashov with no sleep?

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