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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. Who follows Zuckerman out of the cafe after he attempted meeting Oldrich Hrobek?
(a) A dog.
(b) A workman.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A young woman.

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

3. What British term for bathroom do characters use in the narrative?
(a) Can.
(b) Loo.
(c) Head.
(d) Pooper.

4. What does Olga suggest Zuckerman do to show the authorities he is not afraid at breakfast?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Order dessert.
(c) Smoke a cigar.
(d) Order his coffee black.

5. Who does Bolotka say hates him when Zuckerman visits his apartment?
(a) His boss.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ends up writing the reports on Bolotka?

2. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?

3. Who does Zuckerman demand to call after the authorities search him and confiscate the manuscript?

4. What does Olga give Zuckerman the manuscript wrapped in?

5. What does the agent Zuckerman hands his passport to at the airport remark Zuckerman is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Zuckerman goes to meet Oldrich after leaving the hotel?

2. How does Roth establish a hazy line between truth and reality in the narrative? How is this revealed in the Czech student?

3. What note has been left for Zuckerman at the hotel? Who is the letter from?

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

5. What does Olga ask Zuckerman to tell her in his hotel room? What does she suggest about his speech?

6. What symbolic statement does Olga make about freedom in her last meeting with Zuckerman?

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

8. When did Bolotka enter university? What was his major? What did he want to change it to?

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

10. What does Olga tell Zuckerman he wants to gain by getting the manuscript? Why is her situation different?

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