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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. Who is in the room to which Rubashov is taken for his third hearing?
(a) Gletkin
(b) Ivanov
(c) Gletkin and Ivanov
(d) Gletkin and a secretary

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

3. What does Gletkin say about Arlova?
(a) She said before she died that Rubashov considered the revolution dead.
(b) Rubashov did not denounce her.
(c) She might have been innocent.
(d) Arlova is not really dead.

4. What does Wassilij ask the reader about the petition she has?
(a) If she plans to sign it
(b) If the civil war veterans are required to sign it
(c) If she brought it there for him to sign
(d) If the boy she plans to marry has signed it

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prosecutor interrupt Rubashov to ask?

2. Who is reading the newspaper to Wassilij?

3. What does Rubashov say has always been his motives for anything?

4. What sticks out of the wall above Wassilij’s head?

5. Who does the reader sign up to marry three weeks ago?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. With whom does Gletkin confront Rubashov and with what charge?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

(see the answer keys)

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