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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?
(a) Convicted criminals.
(b) Illegal immigrants.
(c) Child workers.
(d) The elderly and destitute.

3. How does Kovály get herself an apartment after the end of the war?
(a) She lies about her identity.
(b) She waits patiently until one comes available.
(c) She moves into the housing authority's offices.
(d) She is awarded it in a lottery.

4. What happens to the national borders as 1948 end?
(a) The borders are reopened.
(b) The borders are closed.
(c) The Soviet Union stations their armies at the borders.
(d) The borders are extended.

5. 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) Flowers in bloom.
(d) A dead SS Soldier.

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

7. Who offers Kovály an apartment where she can stay?
(a) Ruda.
(b) Mrs. Machova.
(c) A rabbi.
(d) Rudolf Margolius.

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

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

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

11. How are the escaped women able to cross the border out of Nazi Germany?
(a) They hide in the back of an army truck.
(b) They sneak across a border checkpoint.
(c) They receive help from a Greman officer.
(d) They follow a river out of Germany.

12. On one occasion, Kovály discovers the body of an acquaintance covered with what?
(a) Hay.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Rats.

13. After returning to Prague, Kovály receives a note from Ruda that contains what?
(a) A prayer.
(b) Passwords.
(c) Directions for avoiding the Gestapo.
(d) A bank account number.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reality of the Russian government?

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

3. Which area does the escaped women enter after leaving Nazi Germany?

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

5. How do many people believe Masaryk dies?

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