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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: How We Survived Communism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During "The Day When They Say That War Will Begin", Croatia's president issued what decree?
(a) Women will fight for their country.
(b) Food will be sanctioned.
(c) Surrender all illegal arms.
(d) Men will fight for their country.

2. Vesna's mother believed that what helped her to survive Communism?
(a) Stockpiling things.
(b) Her father.
(c) Hope.
(d) Prayer.

3. Slavenka learned the truth about Ulrike from whom?
(a) Ulrike's husband.
(b) Ulrike.
(c) Christianne.
(d) The newspaper.

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

5. Why were cleaning services forbidden in Communist times?
(a) They did not do the job well.
(b) They bred laziness.
(c) They bred inequality.
(d) They cost too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slavenka believed that those under Communism wore what metaphorical color?

2. Who was in charge of renewing Zagreb?

3. How did Tanja die?

4. In "The Day When They Say That War Will Begin", whose death inspired nationalism?

5. In "Some Doubts...", what exotic purchase did Slavenka feel guilty about?

(see the answer key)

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