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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the ghetto where she is taken, Kovály assists a person of which profession?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A writer.
(c) An artist.
(d) A physician.

2. At the beginning of the book, who does Kovály name as individuals who help shape her life?
(a) Her God-mother and God-father.
(b) Lenin and Marx.
(c) Rudolf Margolias and Pavel Kovály.
(d) Hitler and Stalin.

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Kovály when she arrives at the camp?
(a) Strong.
(b) Young.
(c) Healthy.
(d) Sickly.

4. How is Russia portrayed to the Czech people?
(a) As tumultuous.
(b) A paradise.
(c) As a failure.
(d) As stable.

5. What does Kovály find out about her friends when she returns to Prague?
(a) They are gone.
(b) They pool their money and prepare a place for her to stay.
(c) They notify the Gestapo of her return.
(d) They are terrified of being seen with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one place Kovály works during the war?

2. This is the only Jewish person Kovály knew before the war who returns to Prague?

3. What supply is said to be scarce and often withheld from the people in the camp?

4. In which country is the ghetto that Kovály and her family are taken located?

5. While attempting to escape, which of Kovály's group momentarily pleads with the others to go back?

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