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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rubashov need in order to get cigarettes?
(a) Prison vouchers
(b) A visiting relative
(c) Money
(d) A connection with the top prisoner

2. What is Rubashov dreaming about when officials come to arrest him?
(a) His first arrest
(b) His first trip outside the country
(c) Leaving Russia and living in France
(d) His wife and children who were killed

3. To what new job is Arlova appointed?
(a) To monitor the talk in the canteen
(b) To be the secretary for Rubashov’s superior
(c) To write a new biography of No. 1
(d) To be a librarian and monitor the political correctness of books

4. What does 402 tell Rubashov is happening the night the prison feels different?
(a) Political differences are being settled
(b) He does not know what is happening
(c) The prison guards are being changed
(d) Sympathizers are going to break into the prison

5. What was Richard’s trade?
(a) Farmer
(b) Librarian
(c) Carpenter
(d) Locksmith

6. What kind of trick does Secretary Paul do?
(a) Spinning coins over his knuckles
(b) Pulling carrots out of hats
(c) Telling a person’s weight by looking at them
(d) Moving his hat with his ears

7. With what does Rubashov say wrong ideas must be punished?
(a) Re-education
(b) Isolation and torture
(c) Prison terms
(d) Death

8. What does Gletkin fear about Ivanov and Rubashov?
(a) The Ivanov will convince Rubashov for a public trial and Gletkin’s methods will be questioned
(b) That they are conspiring to have Gletkin arrested
(c) That Ivanov will succeed and Rubashov will sign a confession
(d) That Ivanov will help Rubashov escape

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

10. What book does No. 1 keep on his desk at all times?
(a) The Prince
(b) Justice Poetics
(c) The Communist Manifesto
(d) Spartan and Liberty

11. As Rubashov paces his cell, what does he wonder about No. 1 ?
(a) What No. 1 might be doing at the moment
(b) Whether anyone can kill No. 1
(c) What goes on inside No. 1’s brain
(d) Whether No. 1 ever really believed the party line

12. What message does Rubashov receive about what he should do when his trial is over?
(a) Move to Europe
(b) Die in silence
(c) Find his wife
(d) Kill No. 1

13. Why is Rubashov allowed to remain in bed on his first morning in prison?
(a) He has not been processed yet.
(b) The rules are not posted in his cell.
(c) He tells them he has the flu.
(d) He claims to have a toothache.

14. How did Vassilij get the scar on his neck?
(a) On a hunting trip
(b) In a farming accident with a threshing machine
(c) Fighting the Germans
(d) Fighting in the civil war

15. What is an execution called in prison?
(a) Target practice
(b) Hangman’s Bluff
(c) Physical liquidation
(d) Prejudiced termination

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Rubashov hold?

2. Where does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

3. What awakens Rubashov at seven in the morning?

4. Why does Rubashov feel sorry for Prisoner 402?

5. What profession did No. 406 have?

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