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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 might turn him in for it.
(b) She might think badly of him.
(c) She might quit reading the paper to him.
(d) She may not speak with him again.

2. What does the resolution that the reader signed demand?
(a) That a new trial take place for Rubashov
(b) That Rubashov be exterminated
(c) That Rubashov be sent to Siberia
(d) That Rubashov be released

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

4. What does Rubashov do with his confession before supper?
(a) He flushes it down the john
(b) He hands it to a guard
(c) He reads it again and makes two corrections
(d) He tears it up

5. What does Wassilij say after he hears that Rubashov’s sentence is death?
(a) The government is killing the best of us.
(b) Thy will be done. Amen.
(c) So, now, they murder another innocent man.
(d) And, I, too, may be next.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov say is suicide for the revolution?

2. What does Wassilij ask the reader about the petition she has?

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

4. What does Rubashov’s new exercise partner call himself?

5. What does Wassilij say to the reader about Rubashov declaring himself a traitor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

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

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

7. What does the prisoner in 402 tell Rubashov to do before they come for Rubashov and how long does 402 have to remain in prison? What are 402’s last words to Rubashov?

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

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

10. What does Rubashov say some of his ideas could cause?

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