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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: A Chat with my Censor and Chapter 9: The Strange Ability of Apartments to Divide and Multiply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Time magazine reported that Eastern European women did what the same as they had fifty years ago?
(a) Think.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Make bread.
(d) Dress.

2. What delicacy did Slavenka purchase in Prague?
(a) Torte.
(b) Wine.
(c) Apples.
(d) Swiss candy.

3. What things did Slavenka's family adapt to using in the 1970's?
(a) Brushing their teeth.
(b) All of these.
(c) Washing their hands.
(d) Bathing.

4. What did Slavenka do for a living?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Counselor.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Translator.

5. How did Tanja die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Gas poisoning.
(d) During surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topics did Slavenka and Evelinka's dinner party guests discuss?

2. What did America represent to Slavenka?

3. During the Communist regime, what did the girls in Eastern Europe have trouble playing with?

4. What gift did Rumiana bring to girls at a reform school?

5. At the beginning of this book, Yugoslavia celebrated its one-year anniversary of what?

(see the answer key)

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