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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the camp inmates staying when Kovály and her acquaintances decide to escape?
(a) A farmer's field.
(b) A train station.
(c) A country inn.
(d) A barn.

2. What is the most appealing form of government for the majority of Czechs following the war?
(a) Communism.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

3. What happens to Kovály's camp as the allied forces advance upon it?
(a) It is partially dismantled.
(b) It is fortified.
(c) It is disguised as a factory.
(d) It is burned.

4. To what kind of job does an old friend in the country urge Margolius to turn?
(a) A teaching job.
(b) A banking job.
(c) A factory job.
(d) A farming job.

5. How does Margolius feel about his work for the Communist Party?
(a) He is indifferent to his role.
(b) He feels he is working against Czechoslovakia's best interests.
(c) He does his work without conviction.
(d) He is devoted to it.

6. In 1947 and early 1948, from what does Kovály isolate herself?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Political discussions.
(c) Her son.
(d) The outside world.

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

8. In 1941, to which ghetto is Kovály and her family taken?
(a) The Lublin Ghetto.
(b) The Vilna Ghetto.
(c) The Lodz Ghetto.
(d) The Lvóv Ghetto.

9. What form of government does Franta want Czechoslovakia to have?
(a) A Feudalist one.
(b) An absolute monarchy.
(c) A Communist one.
(d) A democratic one.

10. 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) Volunteer work.
(c) Widespread corruption.
(d) Planning to create job opportunities.

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

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

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

14. In which country is the ghetto that Kovály and her family are taken located?
(a) Poland.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Germany.
(d) Romania.

15. Who is Jan Masaryk?
(a) Deputy Minister of National Defense.
(b) Regional Party Secretary.
(c) Margolius' assistant.
(d) The Foreign Minister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Kovály's friends also returns with Franta?

3. Surviving the initial selection at Auschwitz, Kovály is assigned what work?

4. While attempting to escape, which of Kovály's group momentarily pleads with the others to go back?

5. Without work to do, what is said that people do all day?

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