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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 brand of toilet paper did Slavenka use as a child?
(a) Charmin.
(b) Baron.
(c) Golub.
(d) Slavvaan.

2. Under Communist rule, many young people felt what?
(a) Safe.
(b) Protected.
(c) Trapped.
(d) Inspired.

3. Who did Eastern European women blame for their troubles?
(a) The govenment.
(b) No one.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their parents.

4. Why did Slavenka buy a doll in East Berlin?
(a) It was cheap.
(b) It reminded her of childhood.
(c) It was ugly.
(d) To give to charity.

5. In "Our Little Stasi", what made it difficult for Slavenka to pay her bills?
(a) The hours of the post office.
(b) Her mother's interference.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) A lack of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Andrea when Slavenka was her close friend?

2. At the beginning of "Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague", where did Slavenka and Jolanta go for a visit?

3. During Communist times, why did people trade space in their apartments?

4. Time magazine reported that Eastern European women did what the same as they had fifty years ago?

5. What was one of the problems in Zsuzsa and Istvan's marriage?

(see the answer key)

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