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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 was Eva's profession in Europe?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Actress.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Singer.

2. Bolotka tells Zuckerman there are only microphones at Klenek's, not what?
(a) Video cameras.
(b) Spies.
(c) Satellites.
(d) Infiltrators.

3. What does the title of Olga's best-seller translate to in English?
(a) Longing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Loving.
(d) Belonging.

4. 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.

5. Olga is married to whom?
(a) Kalvoda.
(b) Sedivy.
(c) Sisovsky.
(d) Vodicka.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Sisovsky connected to Judaism?

2. What are not allowed at the orgy parties at Klenek's?

3. Where does Olga tell the boy at the party that this picture of her will show up at Klenek's?

4. What is the name of the famous bridge and tourist attraction in Prague?

5. What does Sisovsky say his father belonged to, in his meeting with Zuckerman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman about Eva's past in Prague when they first meet?

2. What relationship did Sisovsky's father have with the Gestapo? When did he die?

3. What does Zuckerman pass on his way to Klenek's? What does he observe upon arriving at the party?

4. What does the story of Eva's past foreshadow for the protagonist?

5. How does Sisovsky describe his father? What does Sisovsky conclude his father belonged to?

6. Why does Sisovsky claim to have written to Zuckerman in their meeting? Where are Sisovsky's father's stories?

7. What duality and conflict does Sisovsky face in America? What does Eva?

8. What does Olga demand before exposing herself at the orgy party? Where is Olga's lover, according to Bolotka?

9. What causes Eva to storm out from the dinner with Zuckerman and Sisovsky in the beginning of the novel?

10. What reaction does Olga receive after exposing herself at Klenek's?

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