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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. How does Kovály travel to Prague after reaching the outskirts of the city?
(a) By streetcar.
(b) By bicycle.
(c) By taxi.
(d) By row boat.

2. This is the only Jewish person Kovály knew before the war who returns to Prague?
(a) Vlada.
(b) The local Rabbi.
(c) Rudolf Margolius.
(d) Her aunt.

3. In which city does Kovály grow up?
(a) Prague.
(b) Ostrava.
(c) Liberec.
(d) Brno.

4. How does Franz treat Eva at the camp?
(a) He treats her with fatherly concern.
(b) He treats her like a friend.
(c) He is physically abusive.
(d) He is verbally abusive.

5. What happens to people who cannot keep up as the camp was evacuated?
(a) They are transported in cars.
(b) They are left to freeze to death.
(c) They are chased by dogs.
(d) They are shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose hometown does the escape party dissolve?

2. What happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?

3. Following the end of the war, how do the Prague civil authorities handle the return of concentration camp prisoners?

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

5. After finding a place to stay, what immediately happens to Kovály?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens economically in the spring of 1953?

2. What is life like for Kovály as a slave laborer at Auschwitz?

3. Describe what occurrs in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1968.

4. What happens when Nikita Khruschchev came to power in the Soviet Union?

5. At the beginning of the book, what does Kovály say shapes her life?

6. How does Kovály describe the feeling in Prague by the middle of 1951?

7. After Margolius' arrest, what contributed to Kovály's bad health?

8. What happens to Kovály's family at Auschwitz?

9. What do the Nazis do as the Russian army advance westward?

10. How does Kovály secure herself an apartment following the war?

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