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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 does Zuckerman smoke over breakfast when dining with Olga?
(a) A Cuban cigar.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A Russian cigar.
(d) An English cigarette.

2. 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) 1963.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

3. What did the university do to Bolotka after he attempted to switch majors?
(a) Kicked him out.
(b) Gave him an advanced degree.
(c) Returned him to the law school.
(d) Returned him to the medical school.

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

5. What does Zuckerman tell Olga he loves about her in his hotel room?
(a) Her sense of adventure.
(b) Her sense of reality.
(c) Her intelligence.
(d) Her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Oldrick Hrobek tell Zuckerman to meet him when he leaves the hotel?

2. What does Olga tell Zuckerman would happen if she attempted to smuggle the manuscript to the West?

3. What is Bolotka's apartment like?

4. What older American best-seller is virtually unknown but Novak thinks it is a masterpiece?

5. On what condition did Bolotka's childhood friend offer to help him recently at a bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the position of Novak? What does he relate about his occupation?

2. What position does Blecha hold now in the narrative? What did he recently offer to help Bolotka with?

3. What does Novak represent symbolically in the narrative?

4. Where does Oldrick Hrobek ask Zuckerman to meet him when he leaves the hotel? Where is Olga?

5. Who does Zuckerman ride to the airport with in the end of the novel? What literary work does he discuss?

6. What does Zuckerman begin to question after meeting with Oldrich and Bolotka? Who comes to his hotel?

7. Why and how does Olga eventually give Zuckerman the manuscript?

8. What happens when Zuckerman returns to his hotel with the manuscript?

9. Where does Zuckerman go after leaving Prague? How does he feel about the situation?

10. What story does Olga relate over breakfast about having been taken to an office building by the authorities?

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