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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. Bolotka tells Zuckerman girls love to have sex with him at his apartment because it is what?

2. What is Bolotka's apartment like?

3. Recently, Bolotka's childhood friend met him at a bar and suggested he could help him with what?

4. Who comforts Zuckerman, telling him the authorities cannot touch him in the narrative?

5. What story of Sisovsky's does Olga claim is a lie at breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What symbolic statement does Olga make about freedom in her last meeting with Zuckerman?

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

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

6. What does Olga ask Zuckerman to tell her in his hotel room? What does she suggest about his speech?

7. What does Olga tell Zuckerman he wants to gain by getting the manuscript? Why is her situation different?

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

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

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

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 repression of homosexuality in the narrative and in Communist Czechoslovakia. How is this demonstrated in Mr. Vodicka and the young gay boy at the party?

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