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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Kovály find a job in order to support herself and Ivan?
(a) At a factory.
(b) At a print shop.
(c) At a dairy.
(d) At a nursery school.

2. Where does Kovály realize some important Communist officers live?
(a) In the poorest Prague neighborhoods.
(b) Next door to her family.
(c) In luxury apartments.
(d) In former Jewish neighborhoods.

3. In 1941, with whom does Kovály live in the ghetto where she is taken?
(a) Her God parents.
(b) A group of girls around her age.
(c) An elderly woman.
(d) Her family.

4. While party officials publicly extol the virtues of proletariat work, what is going on in secret among government officials?
(a) Military lotting to declare war on the Soviet Union.
(b) Widespread corruption.
(c) Planning to create job opportunities.
(d) Volunteer work.

5. What happens to Kovály's mother on arrival at the concentration camp?
(a) She is assigned factory work.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is redirected to another camp.
(d) She is gassed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?

2. When Margolias' trial begins, how long has it been since his arrest?

3. How are the escaped women able to cross the border out of Nazi Germany?

4. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?

5. On one occasion, Kovály discovers the body of an acquaintance covered with what?

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