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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. Why does Olga leave to go to the bathroom at breakfast at the hotel?
2. What does the agent Zuckerman hands his passport to at the airport remark Zuckerman is?
3. When did Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev take the office of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
4. In what language is the manuscript of Sisovksy's father written?
5. What refers to a citizenship paper that citizens carry in the Soviet Union which serves to identify the citizen correctly, much like a passport or driver's license?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Zuckerman go after leaving Prague? How does he feel about the situation?
2. What does Bolotka tell Zuckerman after his meeting with Oldrich?
3. Why did the university tell Bolotka he was unable to change majors?
4. Why does Olga choose not to hurt Sisovsky by giving up the manuscript?
5. Why and how does Olga eventually give Zuckerman the manuscript?
6. What does Zuckerman begin to question after meeting with Oldrich and Bolotka? Who comes to his hotel?
7. What objective does Zuckerman reveal to Olga over breakfast? What is her response?
8. What does the Czech student warn Zuckerman of at the hotel?
9. When does Zuckerman awake to a call from Olga? What does the tell him in his hotel room?
10. What is Bolotka's apartment like? What does he tell Zuckerman about his room?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Zuckerman and Bolotka in the narrative. How are Bolotka and Zuckerman alike? What are their differences and are those principally based on setting or circumstance? How?
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
Discuss the objectives, actions and obstacles of the characters in pages 32-39. Why did Zuckerman actually come to Klenek's? What does Zuckerman want from Olga? What does Olga want?
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