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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 15, 16, and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Merenka?
(a) The Margolius' next-door neighbor.
(b) Ivan's teacher.
(c) The Margolius' live-in assistant.
(d) A Communist Party spy.

2. As Communism takes hold in Czechoslovakia, what does Kovály note about the confessions issued by arrested individuals?
(a) They are full of Party verbiage.
(b) They are heart-wrenching
(c) They are sarcastic.
(d) They are read in Russian.

3. What does Pavel Kovály find for the apartment Kovály moves to after Margolius' death?
(a) An icebox.
(b) A mattress.
(c) A radio.
(d) A stove.

4. Faced with a bad economy, what do people do a few months before the end of the war?
(a) Loot and riot.
(b) Pawn their possessions.
(c) Take all their money from the banks.
(d) Hoard.

5. Who comes to power in 1956?
(a) Alexey Kosygin.
(b) Nikolai Bulganin.
(c) Iosef Stalin.
(d) Nikita Khruschchev.

Short Answer Questions

1. Listening to Margolius on the radio, what does Kovály realize about what he says?

2. After finding a place to stay, what immediately happens to Kovály?

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

4. Months after Margolius' arrest, why does the Communist Party send a team to Kovály's apartment?

5. How does Kovály get herself an apartment after the end of the war?

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