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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to many of the people who return to Prague from the concentration camps?
(a) They are given free housing outside of Prague.
(b) They are turned to the streets.
(c) They are returned to their homes.
(d) They are imprisoned.

2. How do many people believe Masaryk dies?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Torture.
(c) Poison.
(d) Heart attack.

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

4. What is Kovály's ethnic background?
(a) Romani.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Greek.
(d) Italian.

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.

6. Kovály discovers that the politicians wives are afraid of doing what?
(a) Leaving their houses after dark.
(b) Overhearing political discussions.
(c) Anything that could be construed as disloyal to the party.
(d) Wearing unfashionable clothing.

7. To help haul ammunition, Kovály disguises herself as what?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A Red Cross worker.
(c) A man.
(d) A soldier.

8. What happens to people who cannot keep up as the camp was evacuated?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are left to freeze to death.
(c) They are transported in cars.
(d) They are chased by dogs.

9. What news arrives for Kovály almost daily after the war?
(a) News about family members who survive the war.
(b) News of some friends or family members' war-time demise.
(c) News about job opportunities abroad.
(d) News about political corruption in the city.

10. In whose hometown does the escape party dissolve?
(a) Hanka's.
(b) Andula's.
(c) Kovály's.
(d) Zuzka's.

11. To which camp is Kovály and her family sent when their ghetto is liquidated?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Arbeitsdorf.
(d) Auschwitz.

12. What happens to Kovály's cousin days after she rescues him?
(a) He is thrown a surprise party.
(b) He is imprisoned by the Nazis.
(c) He falls into a coma and dies.
(d) He escapes from the ghetto.

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

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

15. Following the end of the war, how do the Prague civil authorities handle the return of concentration camp prisoners?
(a) They embrace the return.
(b) They search public records to identify returnees eligible for free housing.
(c) They are incapable of dealing with the confusion.
(d) They build road blocks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kovály see while walking by a river that brings the war to a personal conclusion?

3. In the ghetto where she is taken, Kovály assists a person of which profession?

4. Who is Franz?

5. What does Kovály want to focus on besides getting involved with the Communist Party?

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