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

2. Why does Sisovsky say he wrote to Zuckerman?
(a) He is related to him.
(b) He read about him.
(c) They went to school together.
(d) He idolizes him.

3. What role had Eva played which led people to believe she was Jewish?
(a) Susan B. Anthony.
(b) Betsy Ross.
(c) Anne Frank.
(d) Jesus.

4. Where did Philip Roth grow up?
(a) Boston, MA.
(b) Pittsburgh, PA.
(c) Portland, ME.
(d) Newark, NJ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Eva married in Europe?

2. What is the date of Zuckerman's writing of his arrival in Prague?

3. Who does Olga tell the boy at the orgy party videotapes her?

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

5. What Czech writer does Zuckerman meet in the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman his novel is banned? Why did he leave Czechoslovakia?

5. What does Olga represent symbolically in the narrative?

6. Where does the narrative open? What year is it?

7. What is symbolically alluded to in the conversation between Sisovsky and Zuckerman regarding doubt?

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

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

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

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