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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. For work, who was Slavenka forced to meet with?
(a) Troubled teens.
(b) A Censor.
(c) The president.
(d) Drug addicts.

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

3. As a child, what affliction did Slavenka suffer from on a trip to Italy?
(a) Gout.
(b) Seasickness.
(c) Homesickness.
(d) Anxiety.

4. Where did Tanja outline passages about death?
(a) Her journal.
(b) Time magazine.
(c) Her newspaper articles.
(d) The Bible.

5. What year did Slavenka and Ulrike meet?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city shocked Slavenka with its variety of food?

2. What memory about Slavenka's grandmother saddened her?

3. Where did Slavenka fly to on June 27, 1991?

4. In response to an abundance of food after the fall of Communism, what was considered a luxury?

5. What delicacy did Slavenka purchase in Prague?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the people of the former communistic society surprised when they were allowed to own things?

2. Why was Slavenka concerned that Americans could not imagine what it would be like to live in a Communist society?

3. Why did Slavenka have to learn of Ulrike's past from a friend rather than Ulrike?

4. Why was Slavenka startled to find a notated Bible amongst Tanja's possessions?

5. Why did the Communists prevent women from wearing make-up?

6. Why did the girls of Eastern Europe attempt to play with dolls?

7. What lie did Slavenka tell her daughter, regarding comfortable toilet paper and other basic amenities?

8. What did the Censor discuss with Slavenka?

9. Why did the state keep an eye on Slavenka?

10. Why was it considered luxurious not to eat, following the fall of Communism?

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