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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 happened to Hare-lip’s father?
(a) He died of old age.
(b) He was executed.
(c) He moved to Belgium.
(d) He died of a long, extended illness.

2. What does the newspaper say is the type of evidence against Rubashov?
(a) Recorded conversations with terrorists
(b) Rubashov’s confession and documentary evidence
(c) Documents accumulated over a three year period
(d) It is not said what the evidence is

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rubashov realize about his position with Gletkin?

2. What did Rubashov mean to study when he was a boy?

3. What is the one charge against Rubashov which is dropped?

4. What does Rubashov believe honor to be?

5. Why does Wassilij turn his head away from the reader?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Wassilij’s daughter read the paper to him?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Wassilij’s daughter thinking as she reads the paper out loud?

10. What does Prisoner 402 say about capitulation? What does Rubashov think of this belief?

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