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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Second Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What awakens Rubashov at seven in the morning?
(a) The sunlight through the window
(b) A bugle call
(c) A guard banging on his door
(d) A person in the next cell screaming

2. What does Ivanov say would have made Raskolnikov innocent of a crime?
(a) If it had been done in a different country
(b) If the old woman had fought against Raskolnikov
(c) If he had killed the old woman for the party
(d) If he had not killed a second person

3. What does Ivanov say is incompatible with social progress?
(a) Giving the people enough to eat
(b) Capitalism
(c) Allowing the masses to have luxury
(d) Respect for the individual

4. What do the prisoners do when prisoner 380 is taken to be killed?
(a) Sing a hymn
(b) Yell anti-government slogans
(c) Tap on the door the code for rest in peace, over and over
(d) Stand at the spy hole and drum

5. What does Ivanov say are the two conceptions of human ethics?
(a) Humane and inhumane
(b) Humane and collective aim
(c) Christian and humane
(d) Natural and man-made

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Rubashov allowed to remain in bed on his first morning in prison?

2. What does Ivanov call all the deaths that have occurred since the revolution?

3. What does Ivanov call Rubashov’s accuser?

4. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?

5. What picture hangs over Rubashov’s bed at home?

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