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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 does the reader sign up to marry three weeks ago?
(a) The boy next door
(b) A mechanic
(c) A farmer
(d) A police officer

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) Rubashov conspired with Hare-lip’s father against No. 1.
(d) Hare-lip has never seen Rubashov before this prison time.

3. What does Rubashov realize he missed right after breakfast?
(a) Talking to Ivanov
(b) The usual phrase from cell 406
(c) The bugle calling wake-up
(d) Having a second cup of coffee

4. 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 released
(d) That Rubashov be sent to Siberia

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the room to which Rubashov is taken for his third hearing?

2. What happened to Hare-lip’s father?

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

4. What does Rubashov remember he had read about the universe?

5. When is Rubashov taken from his cell after turning in his confession?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

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

8. What happens after 402 taps his farewell to Rubashov?

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

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

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