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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 happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?
(a) Kovály is discovered and taken into custody.
(b) An uprising against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
(c) A great fire destroys much of Prague.
(d) Kovály gives birth to her first child.

2. How do many people believe Masaryk dies?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Poison.
(c) Torture.
(d) Heart attack.

3. Which of Kovály's friends also returns with Franta?
(a) Zdenek.
(b) Vlada.
(c) Mrs. Machova.
(d) Andula.

4. To what kind of job does an old friend in the country urge Margolius to turn?
(a) A farming job.
(b) A factory job.
(c) A teaching job.
(d) A banking job.

5. How do Kovály's friends begin to treat her after Margolius accepts his high-ranking government job?
(a) With hostility.
(b) With great deference.
(c) With indifference.
(d) With affection.

Short Answer Questions

1. On one occasion, Kovály discovers the body of an acquaintance covered with what?

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

3. Where does Kovály realize some important Communist officers live?

4. How does Margolius feel about his work for the Communist Party?

5. What happens to Kovály's cousin days after she rescues him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Kovály's family when the Soviet occupation occurred?

2. What is contained in the note that Ruda sends Kovály after she settles in his apartment?

3. What does an old friend in the country encourage Margolius to do?

4. How is Kovály treated differently at the hospital when it became known that her husband had been arrested?

5. What happens economically in Prague shortly after the war's end?

6. How does Machova intervene when the Communists sent a team in to catalogue Kovály's possessions for later seizure?

7. What happens when Czec soldiers will not let Kovaly leave becuase she does not have the correct paperwork?

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

9. Why is Communism appealing to the Czech people after the war?

10. How are Kovály and Margolius able to communicate after his arrest?

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