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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. What is Eva's profession in America?
(a) Actress.
(b) Cab driver.
(c) Dancer.
(d) Dress seller.
2. Who did Sisovsky's father's Gestapo officer/protector shoot in Sisovsky's story?
(a) The dentist.
(b) The mechanic.
(c) The pilot.
(d) The chef.
3. Bolotka says if the authorities question him about Zuckerman, he will say Zuckerman visits to sleep with who?
(a) 25-year-old women.
(b) 15-year-old girls.
(c) 12-year-old girls.
(d) 70-year-old women.
4. The character of Nathan Zuckerman is considered to be what to the author?
(a) A cousin.
(b) An alter-ego.
(c) A brother.
(d) A stranger.
5. What does Olga write, which are beloved by the Czech people?
(a) Mystery novels.
(b) Children's farces.
(c) Love stories.
(d) Existential satires.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Philip Roth attend college?
2. What does Sisovsky claim to hate when talking with Zuckerman in the beginning of the novel?
3. Where does Sisovsky say he arrived in Canada from in the beginning of the novel?
4. What does Eva believe she is for how she handled the bullish authorities in Europe?
5. What is Zuckerman's profession?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Mr. Vodicka an the gay boy at Klenek's represent symbolically?
2. What conversation do Bolotka and Olga have about America at the Kleneks' party?
3. Discuss the theme of Jewish identity in Philip Roth's writing. What are his influences? What other works address the subject?
4. Where does the narrative open? What year is it?
5. What does Olga demand before exposing herself at the orgy party? Where is Olga's lover, according to Bolotka?
6. What literary allusion does Philip Roth use in Sisovsky's descriptions of his father? Why?
7. Why does Sisovsky claim to have written to Zuckerman in their meeting? Where are Sisovsky's father's stories?
8. What does Bolotka tell Zuckerman about Olga when they first meet? Who approaches Olga to reveal herself at the party?
9. What took place that led to Sisovsky's father being shot? Who murdered him?
10. What does Olga represent symbolically in the narrative?
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