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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. What does Olga tell Zuckerman is the only freedom left in this country?

2. What does Olga tell Zuckerman in their next meeting after the hotel breakfast?

3. Blecha is terrible at what?

4. Who is Bolotka's childhood friend?

5. The man who sends Zuckerman a note at the hotel is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What objective does Zuckerman reveal to Olga over breakfast? What is her response?

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

6. What childhood memories does Zuckerman recall while riding the trolley into Prague to visit Bolotka?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the principle objectives and obstacles of Zuckerman, Sisovsky, and Eva at their first meeting in the narrative. How does Sisovsky's objective impact the actions of the protagonist?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the author's use of foreshadowing in the narrative and which discusses the narrative voice of the work. How does Zuckerman, as narrator, change through Sisovsky's story?

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