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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. How does the reader heat water for tea?
(a) On the electric stove
(b) In a pot hanging in the fireplace
(c) On a Primus stove
(d) On a hotplate

2. What does Rubashov think is the reason Gletkin reads in a monotone?
(a) He is trying to make the accusations difficult to understand.
(b) Gletkin learned to read late in life.
(c) He is trying to make Rubashov sleepy.
(d) Gletkin does not want Rubashov to hear what Gletkin is reading.

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

4. What makes Wassilij start to cough?
(a) Sitting up too fast
(b) To stop himself from saying too much
(c) Drinking tea that is too hot
(d) From smoking a cigarette

5. Who is Rubashov paired with in exercise the morning after Bogrov’s execution?
(a) Prisoner 402
(b) The young army officer
(c) A thin peasant with bast shoes
(d) Rip Van Wrinkle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov call the light in the room where his third hearing is held?

2. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?

3. From where does Rubashov’s new exercise partner come?

4. What does Rubashov think the main idea about No. 1 is, that must be in a confession?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what other charges does Rubashov concede? What is the one charge that is dropped?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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