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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 Rubashov say he will explain to the judges?
(a) Why No. 1 is not fit to rule the country
(b) What types of counter-revolutionary movements he led
(c) Why the revolution has failed
(d) What led him to capitulate to the investigating magistrate

2. What does Rubashov think the best of them do when condemned to die?
(a) They stay silent.
(b) They blame the state.
(c) They still try to take down the government.
(d) They try to get in some political points in their last speech.

3. What does Rubashov feel is one of the worst degradation during his interviews with Gletkin?
(a) When he has to talk with his eyes closed
(b) When he falls off a chair
(c) When he falls asleep
(d) When he has to ask to relieve himself

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) Rubashov and his colleagues will be given the pity and honor they deserve.
(c) The world will understand the need for revolution.
(d) Prisons such as these will not exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?

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

3. What does Rubashov do with his confession before supper?

4. What happens to Rubashov over the next several days following his first interview with Gletkin?

5. What makes Wassilij start to cough?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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