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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is favored by Communist propaganda?
(a) Ethnic minorities.
(b) The working poor.
(c) Middle-class professionals.
(d) The wealthy.

2. What does Kovály see while walking by a river that brings the war to a personal conclusion?
(a) Children playing.
(b) Flowers in bloom.
(c) A dead SS Soldier.
(d) Nazi propaganda posters being torn down.

3. What are the living conditions in the ghetto?
(a) Horrible.
(b) Sanitary.
(c) Calm.
(d) Luxurious.

4. What happens to the national borders as 1948 end?
(a) The Soviet Union stations their armies at the borders.
(b) The borders are closed.
(c) The borders are reopened.
(d) The borders are extended.

5. How is Russia portrayed to the Czech people?
(a) As tumultuous.
(b) A paradise.
(c) As a failure.
(d) As stable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kovály notice about nearly all the people arrested by the government?

2. What is clear about Communism in Czechoslovakia by the end of 1949?

3. What do most of Kovály's friends offer her when she visits?

4. Where does Kovály see a mass demonstration in 1948?

5. What do the police seize from the Margolius' apartment?

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