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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 39-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Olga's best-seller?
(a) Touha.
(b) Prelouc.
(c) Nachod.
(d) Karvina.

2. Sisovsky explains Eva cannot return to Prague because she cannot do what there?
(a) Act.
(b) Be seen.
(c) Communicate with anyone.
(d) Get an identification card.

3. What did Bolotka's childhood friend drunkenly admit to him one night?
(a) He is gay.
(b) He is broke.
(c) He stole an ex from him.
(d) The government paid him to spy on Bolotka.

4. What did the Czech people hate Eva for?
(a) Being a lesbian.
(b) Risque behavior.
(c) Practicing the wrong religion.
(d) Being with a Jew.

5. What major did Bolotka want to change to while at the university?
(a) Law.
(b) Fine Arts.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. This story of Eva leaving her husband foreshadows the narrator's self-discovery of what in the narrative?

2. What does Bolotka answer when Zuckerman asks how he and his friends can live in such a chaotic country?

3. What does Eva believe she is for how she handled the bullish authorities in Europe?

4. Who begs Zuckerman to stay and have sex at the Klenek party?

5. Why does the Czech government allow Klenek to live in Prague?

(see the answer key)

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