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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the apartment like that Kovály is assigned?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Rat-infested.
(c) Smelly.
(d) Spacious.

2. Who is Eva?
(a) A young and frail camp inmate.
(b) Kovály's cousin.
(c) A camp inmate who is shot for stealing food.
(d) A Jewish nurse who looks after the inmates.

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

4. In the ghetto where she is taken, Kovály assists a person of which profession?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A physician.
(c) A writer.
(d) An artist.

5. At the beginning of the book, who does Kovály name as individuals who help shape her life?
(a) Lenin and Marx.
(b) Her God-mother and God-father.
(c) Hitler and Stalin.
(d) Rudolf Margolias and Pavel Kovály.

6. What group does Margolius join after the war?
(a) Politika 21.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) Civic Democratic Party.
(d) The Workers Party.

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

8. In what year does Kovály's have a baby?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1952.

9. Which of Kovály's friends promises absolute assistance under any circumstance?
(a) Heda.
(b) Marta.
(c) Franta.
(d) Jenda.

10. What is said to happen to people in Prague who harbor fugitives?
(a) They are ostracized.
(b) They are imprisoned.
(c) They are fined.
(d) They are executed.

11. 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 is awarded it in a lottery.
(d) She moves into the housing authority's offices.

12. What is the reality of the Russian government?
(a) It rules fairly.
(b) It rules prosperously.
(c) It has no real power.
(d) It rules with terror.

13. What do people begin offering Kovály after Margolius accepts a high-ranking government job?
(a) Gifts.
(b) Employment opportunities.
(c) Bribes.
(d) Favors.

14. Which of Kovály's friends also returns with Franta?
(a) Andula.
(b) Zdenek.
(c) Mrs. Machova.
(d) Vlada.

15. After the end of the war, which one of Kovály's friends gives her a place to stay?
(a) Zdena.
(b) Jenda.
(c) None of them.
(d) Auntie.

Short Answer Questions

1. While party officials publicly extol the virtues of proletariat work, what is going on in secret among government officials?

2. Which army is said to be advancing westward in late 1944?

3. While living in the ghetto, from what does Kovály rescue her invalid cousin?

4. Which army reaches Prague in May 1945?

5. Faced with a bad economy, what do people do a few months before the end of the war?

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