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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who insists the policemen must search Zuckerman's belongings when he returns to the hotel with the manuscript?
(a) The maid.
(b) The cab driver.
(c) The Hotel Clerk.
(d) A guest at the hotel.

2. Where does Zuckerman return with the manuscript after meeting with Olga?
(a) England.
(b) His house.
(c) His mother's house.
(d) His hotel.

3. When does Oldrick Hrobek tell Zuckerman to meet him when he leaves the hotel?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 1 week.

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

5. 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) 1963.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1962.

6. In what language is the manuscript of Sisovksy's father written?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Polish.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Russian.

7. Who does Novak ask Zuckerman if he knows as they ride to the airport?
(a) Betty MacDonald.
(b) Glenda Robinson.
(c) Susan Johnson.
(d) Marsha Rollins.

8. Who does Zuckerman go to meet after attempting to meet Oldrich Hrobek with no success?
(a) Jaroslav.
(b) Frantisek.
(c) Antonín.
(d) Bolotka.

9. What British term for bathroom do characters use in the narrative?
(a) Head.
(b) Pooper.
(c) Can.
(d) Loo.

10. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?
(a) Klenek.
(b) Olga.
(c) Eva.
(d) Bolotka.

11. What does Olga say loudly for the bug in Zuckerman's room to hear her?
(a) The toilet is clogged.
(b) She has gas.
(c) She wants to marry him.
(d) She is pregnant.

12. What is Bolotka's apartment like?
(a) Tidy.
(b) Extravagant.
(c) Dingy.
(d) A castle.

13. Who approaches Olga to ask for her identification card at Zuckerman's hotel?
(a) The prime minister.
(b) A policeman.
(c) The Hotel Clerk.
(d) The maid.

14. Where is the bugging device in Zuckerman's room?
(a) The chandelier.
(b) The ottoman.
(c) The table lamp.
(d) The desk.

15. When asked for her identification card at the hotel, Olga makes a scene accusing the man of assuming she is what?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) Zuckerman's wife.
(c) A spy.
(d) An American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olga tell Zuckerman in their next meeting after the hotel breakfast?

2. Who is Bolotka's childhood friend?

3. Where does Zuckerman suspect he's being shipped off to while in the car with Novak?

4. Where had Sisovsky's father stayed during the war, according to Olga?

5. Why does Olga ask to switch tables at the hotel dining room?

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