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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blecha is terrible at what?

2. What profession did Novak's father hold?

3. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?

4. Why does Bolotka ask to try on Zuckerman's suit?

5. Why did the school tell Bolotka he could not change his major?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Zuckerman ride to the airport with in the end of the novel? What literary work does he discuss?

2. When did Bolotka enter university? What was his major? What did he want to change it to?

3. What does Olga tell Zuckerman he wants to gain by getting the manuscript? Why is her situation different?

4. What does Olga ask Zuckerman to tell her in his hotel room? What does she suggest about his speech?

5. What does the Czech student warn Zuckerman of at the hotel?

6. What does Novak represent symbolically in the narrative?

7. What childhood memories does Zuckerman recall while riding the trolley into Prague to visit Bolotka?

8. What is the major difference between Zuckerman and the other characters in "The Prague Orgy"?

9. Where does Zuckerman go after leaving Prague? How does he feel about the situation?

10. What note has been left for Zuckerman at the hotel? Who is the letter from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting of "The Prague Orgy", beginning in New York City in 1976. What were politics like in the U.S.? How were they different in the Eastern Bloc?

Essay Topic 2

How did Zuckerman enter Prague? How difficult was it in 1976 for Americans to enter the Eastern Bloc? Where does Klenek live and what is established about his residence in the text?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of Jewish identity, and how Philip Roth incorporates this theme into "The Prague Orgy" and his other works. What works by Roth are centered on the theme? How does "theme" differ from "subject" in a work of literature?

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