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

2. What happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?
(a) An uprising against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
(b) Kovály is discovered and taken into custody.
(c) Kovály gives birth to her first child.
(d) A great fire destroys much of Prague.

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

4. Which area does the escaped women enter after leaving Nazi Germany?
(a) Austria.
(b) Romania.
(c) The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
(d) Poland.

5. How do Kovály's friends begin to treat her after Margolius accepts his high-ranking government job?
(a) With affection.
(b) With great deference.
(c) With indifference.
(d) With hostility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position does Margolius secure in the government?

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

4. Kovály discovers that the politicians wives are afraid of doing what?

5. In 1941, to which ghetto is Kovály and her family taken?

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