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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 think is the real reason he is innocent of all charges?
(a) He is too old to care about another revolution
(b) His entire life has been dedicated to the party
(c) Gletkin is not even smart enough to understand Rubashov’s thinking process
(d) He would never over-throw a government he helped put in place

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov say every government measure represents?

2. What does the reader ask Wassilij before Wassilij signs the petition?

3. Why doesn’t Wassiij hear the prosecutor’s speech as it is read?

4. What did Rubashov believe when he worked for the party as a boy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rubashov ask for when he is taken before Gletkin for Rubashov’s third hearing? What is Gletkin’s response?

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

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

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

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. For what does Wassilij interrupt her reading?

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