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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Olga tell Zuckerman is the only freedom left in this country?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Protest.
(c) Sexual acts.
(d) The outdoors.

2. Novak says to Zuckerman there is no what about writers in Czechoslovakia?
(a) Dignity.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Credibility.
(d) Truth.

3. Who does Bolotka say hates him when Zuckerman visits his apartment?
(a) His brother.
(b) God.
(c) His wife.
(d) His boss.

4. What does Olga give Zuckerman the manuscript wrapped in?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Blankets.
(c) A dog food bag.
(d) A candy box.

5. Who does Zuckerman offer to marry Olga to in negotiating the manuscript?
(a) Sisovsky.
(b) A friend of his.
(c) Oldrich Hrobek.
(d) Himself.

6. What does Olga say Sisovsky will do with the stories if he gets them?
(a) Publish them in his own name.
(b) Auction them to the highest bidder.
(c) Destroy them.
(d) Return them.

7. Why does Bolotka ask to try on Zuckerman's suit?
(a) To see if it fits him.
(b) His favorite designer made it.
(c) To feel like a rich American writer.
(d) It was his father's.

8. What did Bolotka's childhood friend go on to become?
(a) A homeless bum.
(b) A National Artist.
(c) A rock star.
(d) A priest.

9. When did Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev take the office of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1963.

10. Who does Zuckerman suspect had a change of heart and turned him into the authorities after the manuscript is confiscated?
(a) Vlasta.
(b) Olga.
(c) Novak.
(d) Ivan.

11. When was Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev born?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1917.

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

13. Who follows Zuckerman out of the cafe after he attempted meeting Oldrich Hrobek?
(a) A young woman.
(b) A workman.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A dog.

14. What does Zuckerman tell Olga he has come to Prague to get at breakfast?
(a) Sisovsky's father's stories.
(b) A family heirloom.
(c) The money he is owed.
(d) His dignity.

15. Who does Olga tell Zuckerman she slept with last night over breakfast at the hotel?
(a) Someone else.
(b) The Hotel Clerk.
(c) Zdenek Sisovksy.
(d) His best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?

2. What does Oldrich Hrobeck tell Zuckerman at their meeting?

3. Where are Zuckerman's Jewish ancestors from?

4. What does Zuckerman imagine himself cleaning while waiting to meet Oldrich Hrobek at a cafe?

5. On what date does Zuckerman awake to a phone call from Olga in his hotel lobby?

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