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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most appealing form of government for the majority of Czechs following the war?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

2. Who is Franz?
(a) A Nazi guard who often acts as executioner.
(b) A Nazi guard who gives food to the camp inmates.
(c) A man Kovály knows from her old neighborhood.
(d) A Nazi guard who occasionally lets prisoners escape.

3. Where does the Margolius family move after Rudolf accepts his high-ranking government job?
(a) To the Soviet Union.
(b) To America.
(c) A better part of Prague.
(d) To Ostrava.

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

5. Who greets Kovály at Ruda's home?
(a) Mrs. Machova.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Marta.
(d) Ruda himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faced with a bad economy, what do people do a few months before the end of the war?

2. In what year does Kovály's have a baby?

3. What happens to Kovály's cousin days after she rescues him?

4. Which of the following does the owner of the publishers NOT instruct Kovály about?

5. What happens to many of the people who return to Prague from the concentration camps?

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