View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rubashov ask for a recess for a few minutes?
(a) He has a toothache.
(b) He needs to consult his attorney.
(c) He has a headache.
(d) He needs to consult his notes.

2. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?
(a) Desecrators of history
(b) Peasants playing at government
(c) Modern Neanderthalers
(d) Children with no concept of revolution

3. What did Rubashov talk about with a diplomat of a foreign power which Gletkin says was a conversation to get a foreign power to overthrow the government?
(a) Guinea pigs
(b) Agriculture
(c) His father’s farm
(d) Horses

4. What does the reader do as she reads the newspaper to Wassilij?
(a) She bends over closely as she has no glasses.
(b) She follows the lines with a finger.
(c) She coughs.
(d) She drinks a glass of milk.

5. Who appoints the examining magistrate?
(a) The warden
(b) No. 1
(c) The local party chairman
(d) The authorities

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say was the purpose of Rubashov’s confession two years previously?

2. What does Rubashov say can take the nothingness out of dying?

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

4. What right does the newspaper say Rubashov waived for the trial?

5. Why does Rubashov make the speech he makes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens with Rubashov right after he signs the last charge?

4. How does Wassilij’s daughter read the paper to him?

5. How does Gletkin interview Rubashov differently than Ivanov might have done?

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

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

8. What are the first two questions the prosecutor asks Rubashov?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 724 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample