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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 tell Olga she does not care about when negotiating the manuscript?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Literature.
(c) Politics.
(d) Cats.

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

3. Who does Zuckerman receive a note from at the hotel while in the lobby with Olga?
(a) Pavel Mertlík.
(b) Oldrich Hrobeck.
(c) Jan Kohout.
(d) Jirí Sedivy.

4. What refers to a tea with plum brandy commonly drunk in Czechoslovakia?
(a) Slivovitz-larded tea.
(b) Black tea.
(c) Red tea.
(d) Oolong tea.

5. What is Bolotka's apartment like?
(a) Dingy.
(b) Tidy.
(c) A castle.
(d) Extravagant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major did Bolotka want to change to while at the university?

2. In what language is the manuscript of Sisovksy's father written?

3. Who does Novak ask Zuckerman if he knows as they ride to the airport?

4. Where had Sisovsky's father stayed during the war, according to Olga?

5. What did Bolotka's childhood friend drunkenly admit to him one night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Novak represent symbolically in the narrative?

2. What is Bolotka's apartment like? What does he tell Zuckerman about his room?

3. When does Zuckerman awake to a call from Olga? What does the tell him in his hotel room?

4. What is the major difference between Zuckerman and the other characters in "The Prague Orgy"?

5. What does Bolotka tell Zuckerman after his meeting with Oldrich?

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

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

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

9. What did Blecha drunkenly admit to Bolotka one night? What was Bolotka's response?

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

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