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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 believe honor to be?
(a) To serve without vanity
(b) To die without protest
(c) To confess even when innocent
(d) To allow the younger generation to take the reins

2. What does Hare-lip say about Rubashov?
(a) Rubashov tried to get Hare-lip to poison No. 1.
(b) Rubashov and Hare-lip were neighbors when Hare-lip was young.
(c) Hare-lip has never seen Rubashov before this prison time.
(d) Rubashov conspired with Hare-lip’s father against No. 1.

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

4. What does the trial audience yell when the plot to assassinate No. 1 is revealed?
(a) Hail No. 1.
(b) Exterminate the rats.
(c) Send them to the north.
(d) Shoot the mad dogs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gletkin tell Rubashov is the only way Rubashov can serve the Party now?

2. What does Wassilij say one must do without if one sides with decency?

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

4. What does Rubashov say becomes real in death?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

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

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

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

7. How does Rubashov respond to Hare-lip’s accusations?

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

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

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

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