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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Our Little Stasi and Chapter 11: The Language of Soup.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city shocked Slavenka with its variety of food?
(a) Rome.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Paris.

2. What important Yugoslavian political figure died in 1980?
(a) Tito.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Tanja.
(d) Thatcher.

3. What topics did Slavenka and Evelinka's dinner party guests discuss?
(a) Opposition papers and elections.
(b) Internet start-ups.
(c) The latest fashions.
(d) The opera and the theatre.

4. What did America represent to Slavenka?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Sophistication.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Negativity.

5. In Eastern Europe, what did many people expect out of life?
(a) Unhappiness.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alemka do for a living?

2. Where did Slavenka and Ulrike travel to together?

3. In "Our Little Stasi", what made it difficult for Slavenka to pay her bills?

4. Slavenka raised her daughter to be a what?

5. What delicacy did Slavenka purchase in Prague?

(see the answer key)

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