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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. In what year does "The Prague Orgy" begin?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1978.

2. With what kind of vowels does Zuckerman say Sisovsky speaks in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Myconian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Dragonian.
(d) Oxonian.

3. What does Olga demand before showing her vagina to the boy at the orgy?
(a) Money.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) To see his.

4. Who meets Zuckerman to show him around at Klenek's?
(a) Lausman.
(b) Klaus.
(c) Necas.
(d) Bolotka.

5. Bolotka says if the authorities question him about Zuckerman, he will say Zuckerman visits to sleep with who?
(a) 70-year-old women.
(b) 25-year-old women.
(c) 12-year-old girls.
(d) 15-year-old girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stories did Sisovsky's father write, according to him in the discussion with Zuckerman?

2. Who asks Olga to show her vagina to a young, gay boy?

3. The narrative of "The Prague Orgy" is written in what person, largely?

4. What does Bolotka say Olga's lover does all day long?

5. Sisovsky tells Zuckerman his father would have never been published in Czechoslovakia because of his what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman Eva cannot return to Prague? How did they leave?

2. What does Bolotka tell Zuckerman about Olga when they first meet? Who approaches Olga to reveal herself at the party?

3. What symbolism is revealed in the party at Klenek's? What are the attendees representative of?

4. What conversation do Bolotka and Olga have about America at the Kleneks' party?

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

6. How does Philip Roth illustrate Sisovsky's sense of identity in the U.S.?

7. Why was Eva accused of being Jewish in Prague? Who accused her and how was he reprimanded?

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

9. What literary allusion does Philip Roth use in Sisovsky's descriptions of his father? Why?

10. How does Zuckerman's view of his Jewish identity evolve from the dinner with Sisovsky through the narrative?

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