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

2. What does the prosecutor ask Rubashov about counter-revolutionary movements?
(a) If Rubashov has named any other conspirators
(b) If Rubashov can recite a list of counter-revolutionary actions
(c) If Rubashov wants to denounce the counter-revolution movements
(d) If Rubashov acted as an agent of counter-revolution

3. What does the prosecutor tell Rubashov he does not have because of Arlova?
(a) No regrets
(b) No understanding of what is necessary for the revolution
(c) No moral sense
(d) The entire story

4. What does Rubashov say the present day theorists’ job in government is?
(a) To show the party where the people must be manipulated
(b) To render the laws comprehensible
(c) To take the philosophy of government and make it practical
(d) To prove that a change in course by No.1 is a revelation of philosophy

5. What does Rubashov say is suicide for the revolution?
(a) Deciding that death is better than prison
(b) To question whether humans are good
(c) Humanitarian weakness when the masses are not mature
(d) Saving a country by saving people

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin say is the reason peasants in industrial positions should be shot for even minor infractions of the law?

2. What does Rubashov consider the new generation of Communists to be?

3. What does Rubashov think is the reason Gletkin reads in a monotone?

4. What does Wassilij think about when the reader reads about the recess?

5. Where does the reader work?

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. What does the reactionary peasant do to end up in prison?

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

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

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

6. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

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

8. What does Wassilij think about right after the questions concerning Arlova are read to him?

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

10. What does Rubashov feel about the grammatical fiction and the USSR right before he is taken to be killed?

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