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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 does Zuckerman suspect had a change of heart and turned him into the authorities after the manuscript is confiscated?

2. What does Zuckerman tell Olga she does not care about when negotiating the manuscript?

3. What does Olga say loudly for the bug in Zuckerman's room to hear her?

4. How did Sisovsky's father die, according to Olga?

5. Where does Zuckerman finally return in the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Olga choose not to hurt Sisovsky by giving up the manuscript?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did the university tell Bolotka he was unable to change majors?

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

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

9. What does the Czech student warn Zuckerman of at the hotel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the different parts of Prague and how the economic situation there in 1976 differed from what Zuckerman had been exposed to in the U.S. What experiences had Zuckerman had with poverty before coming to Prague?

Essay Topic 2

How did Zuckerman enter Prague? How difficult was it in 1976 for Americans to enter the Eastern Bloc? Where does Klenek live and what is established about his residence in the text?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the character of Olga Sisovsky in the narrative. How old is Olga? What is her personality like? How does Olga respond to Zuckerman? To the advances of Mr. Vodicka?

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