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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the power change in 1956, what do soviet satellite nations begin to do?
(a) Implement a stricter educational system.
(b) Trade goods with Western countries.
(c) Sever all ties with the Soviet Union.
(d) Release political prisoners.

2. How do Kovály's neighbors treat her after Margolius' arrest?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With hostility.
(c) With concern.
(d) With pity.

3. What is one reason Ivan is sent to stay in the country occasionally?
(a) To put on weight.
(b) To avoid the dangers of the city.
(c) To recover from tuberculosis.
(d) To study at a prestigious school.

4. What work does Pavel Kovály find for Kovály after she loses her work-at-home job?
(a) A position at a shoe store.
(b) Freelance art work.
(c) Translation work.
(d) An office assistant job.

5. What happens when Pavel Kovály and Kovály marry?
(a) Pavel is fired.
(b) Ivan disapproves.
(c) Their wedding is interrupted by a riot.
(d) They make plans to emigrate to Britain.

6. What happens when family associates and friends hear about Margolius' arrest?
(a) They arrange a lawyer for Margolius.
(b) They send food and money to Kovály.
(c) They stage a protest.
(d) They sever all relations to Kovály.

7. What kind of feeling is said to have pervaded Prague in 1968?
(a) Anger.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Terror.
(d) A feeling of freedom.

8. Where is Ivan living at the time of the 1960s occupation of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Austria.
(d) Great Britain.

9. How does Kovály leave Prague after the news of the new governments accession?
(a) By car.
(b) By train.
(c) By bus.
(d) By boat.

10. Who comes to power in 1956?
(a) Nikolai Bulganin.
(b) Iosef Stalin.
(c) Alexey Kosygin.
(d) Nikita Khruschchev.

11. How is Margolius associated with Rudolf Slánský?
(a) They play golf together.
(b) They share an office.
(c) They know each other as teenagers.
(d) They have virtually no connection.

12. Who suggests to Kovály that her apartment might be bugged?
(a) Mrs. Machova.
(b) Ruda.
(c) Margolius.
(d) Pavel Eisler.

13. What would one have to do in order to buy anything?
(a) File a request with local authorities.
(b) Wait in long lines.
(c) Go to a central city market.
(d) Order via catalogue.

14. Why do guards stop Kovály at the border when she tries to leave Czechoslovakia?
(a) She does not have the right paperwork.
(b) No one is allowed to cross the borders.
(c) She is a wanted fugitive.
(d) Her photograph does not resemble her aged face.

15. During the summer of 1953, Kovály volunteers to help with what?
(a) A friend's anniversary party.
(b) The harvest.
(c) A public building project.
(d) A Communist rally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose permission does Kovály require in order to obtain the document she needs to arrange her life?

2. After the change of power in 1956, what does The Party admit in regards to the confessions of political prisoners?

3. What does Pavel Kovály find for the apartment Kovály moves to after Margolius' death?

4. How old is Margolius when Kovály sees him last?

5. Listening to Margolius on the radio, what does Kovály realize about what he says?

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