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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who approaches Olga to ask for her identification card at Zuckerman's hotel?
2. When was Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev born?
3. What does Olga scribble to Zuckerman on a notepad in his hotel room?
4. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?
5. Who does Zuckerman demand to call after the authorities search him and confiscate the manuscript?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened when Blecha was promoted? How did he feel about the promotion?
2. What does Bolotka tell Zuckerman after his meeting with Oldrich?
3. What position does Blecha hold now in the narrative? What did he recently offer to help Bolotka with?
4. Why does Olga choose not to hurt Sisovsky by giving up the manuscript?
5. What is the position of Novak? What does he relate about his occupation?
6. Who asks for Olga's identification at the hotel? What is Olga's response?
7. What does Novak represent symbolically in the narrative?
8. What objective does Zuckerman reveal to Olga over breakfast? What is her response?
9. What did Blecha drunkenly admit to Bolotka one night? What was Bolotka's response?
10. When does Zuckerman awake to a call from Olga? What does the tell him in his hotel room?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the use of bugging devices by the authorities in the Communist Eastern Bloc. What rights to privacy did citizens have? How similar or different are things in America today? How are they different in Prague today?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the theme of Jewish identity, and how Philip Roth incorporates this theme into "The Prague Orgy" and his other works. What works by Roth are centered on the theme? How does "theme" differ from "subject" in a work of literature?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Roth's literary allusions to Franz Kafka in the novel. Who discusses Kafka and in what context? What is symbolic about this?
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