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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. Zuckerman views the partiers at Klenek's and does not see any what?
(a) 10-year-old boys.
(b) 15-year-old boys.
(c) 15-year-old girls.
(d) 80-year-old men.

2. What kind of response did Zuckerman's famous novel have in America, according to Sisovsky?
(a) Grateful.
(b) Intrigue.
(c) Scandalous.
(d) Angry.

3. In what language did Sisovsky's father write?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Czech.
(d) Polish.

4. What does Sisovsky say his father belonged to, in his meeting with Zuckerman?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The church.
(c) His mother.
(d) The army.

5. Sisovsky explains Eva cannot return to Prague because she cannot do what there?
(a) Be seen.
(b) Communicate with anyone.
(c) Act.
(d) Get an identification card.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olga demand before showing her vagina to the boy at the orgy?

2. What does Eva beg of Sisovsky while meeting with Zuckerman?

3. What month is dated in the beginning of "The Prague Orgy"?

4. Where does Sisovsky believe Eva is better off?

5. What was Eva's profession in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman Eva cannot return to Prague? How did they leave?

2. How does Sisovsky describe his father? What does Sisovsky conclude his father belonged to?

3. What does the story of Eva's past foreshadow for the protagonist?

4. What do Mr. Vodicka an the gay boy at Klenek's represent symbolically?

5. What does Olga represent symbolically in the narrative?

6. What does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman about Eva's past in Prague when they first meet?

7. When does Zuckerman arrive in Prague? Where does he first attend a party there?

8. What literary allusion does Philip Roth use in Sisovsky's descriptions of his father? Why?

9. Discuss the theme of Jewish identity in Philip Roth's writing. What are his influences? What other works address the subject?

10. What causes Eva to storm out from the dinner with Zuckerman and Sisovsky in the beginning of the novel?

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