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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 worries Wassilij about contradicting the reader?
(a) She may not speak with him again.
(b) She might quit reading the paper to him.
(c) She might turn him in for it.
(d) She might think badly of him.

2. What does Rubashov say every government measure represents?
(a) Power above the masses
(b) A necessary evil
(c) A well thought out proposition
(d) Applied philosophy

3. What does Gletkin tell Rubashov is the only way Rubashov can serve the Party now?
(a) By giving the names of those involved in the plot against No. 1
(b) By denouncing Ivanov
(c) By making a full public confession to the plot to kill No. 1
(d) By denouncing all of the old guard

4. What does Gletkin say will happen in the future when the regime survives?
(a) Russia will be the dominant power in the world
(b) The world will understand the need for revolution.
(c) Rubashov and his colleagues will be given the pity and honor they deserve.
(d) Prisons such as these will not exist.

5. What does Rubashov know would stop the hearings?
(a) To kill himself
(b) To sleep through the hearings
(c) To agree to everything or to deny everything
(d) To begin accusations against Gletkin

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?

2. Who appoints the examining magistrate?

3. What does Rubashov say he meant by acting by violence?

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

5. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Rubashov think the regime is attempting to get rid of the old guard?

2. What does Rubashov’s diary entry at the beginning of the Third Hearing contain?

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

4. What does Rubashov think about the party as he is waiting to be executed?

5. What does Rubashov ask for when he is taken before Gletkin for Rubashov’s third hearing? What is Gletkin’s response?

6. What verdict is reached on Rubashov's charges? What evidence is presented?

7. What does Wassilij say to his daughter about Rubashov’s speech?

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

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

10. What does Prisoner 402 say about capitulation? What does Rubashov think of this belief?

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