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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Grammatical Fiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?
(a) No one
(b) Richard’s brother
(c) A Party chairman
(d) The cinema operator

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

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

4. What is the last thing prisoner 380 yelled as he is pulled down the corridor?
(a) Death to No. 1
(b) The revolution is dead
(c) Stalin devil
(d) Rubashov

5. Between what does Rubashov’s condition alternate during the hearing?
(a) Peace and agitation
(b) Apathy and an unnatural wakefulness
(c) Anger and apathy
(d) Indifference and rage

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rubashov not recognize Hare-lip’s name?

2. With what does Rubashov say he and the other leaders of the revolution replaced vision?

3. What worries Wassilij about contradicting the reader?

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

5. What does Gletkin say is the reason Gletkin did not give in to torture?

(see the answer key)

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