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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 Ivanov call all the deaths that have occurred since the revolution?
(a) Collateral damage
(b) Giving mankind a new skin
(c) Deaths to fertilize the possibilities
(d) Blood to build a strong future

2. What principle does Ivanov says governs political ethics?
(a) The masses do not know what is good for them
(b) Politics and religion do not mix
(c) Politicians will always be corrupt
(d) The ends justifies the means

3. What makes Rubashov think the games are played too well in the Trade delegation?
(a) It is possible to choose who is going to what country from appearance
(b) The diplomats wear American suits
(c) The diplomats speak French
(d) It is almost impossible to separate appearance from reality

4. What does No. 402 call No. 406?
(a) Dumb as rocks
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Rip Van Wrinkle
(d) Something Man

5. What does Richard say about the material the Party sent him to distribute?
(a) It was full of nonsense.
(b) It was written very well.
(c) It had just the right tone.
(d) It was written for the lowest of peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the trade delegation library shortly before the second great trial of the opposition?

2. What does Ivanov say Rubashov will do when Gletkin asks Ivanov in the canteen?

3. What does Rubashov say is the one argument the party has to settle a difference of opinion?

4. What does Rubashov think molded him and Ivanov to be very similar people?

5. With whom was Richard’s wife having an affair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ivanov say is the reason Rubashov will not capitulate with Gletkin’s method?

2. What does Rubashov see the last night of the two weeks given to Rubashov by Ivanov? Who arranges it?

3. What does Rubashov do after he is told he will get no breakfast?

4. Why does Rubashov meet with Little Loewy?

5. How does rub meet Prisoner 406 and what does the 406 show Rubashov?

6. What does Little Loewy tell Rubashov about Loewy’s life?

7. How is Rubashov given a chance to exercise? How is that carried out?

8. How does Rubashov pass his time in the his cell?

9. How does Rubashov prepare for his first interrogation when he thinks they may use the steambath on him?

10. What does Rubashov tell the warden when he is asked why he is not out of bed? What is the warden’s reply?

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