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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Without work to do, what is said that people do all day?
(a) Argue about politics.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Riot.
(d) Volunteer work.

2. How does Kovály travel to Prague after reaching the outskirts of the city?
(a) By bicycle.
(b) By row boat.
(c) By streetcar.
(d) By taxi.

3. What happens to the people who are staying in Auschwitz as the allied forces advance?
(a) They are relocated via train.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are marched westward.
(d) They are released.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Margolius secure in the government?

2. What happens to many smaller companies as 1948 comes to an end?

3. What do people begin offering Kovály after Margolius accepts a high-ranking government job?

4. How do Kovály's friends begin to treat her after Margolius accepts his high-ranking government job?

5. To what kind of job does an old friend in the country urge Margolius to turn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Nazis do as the Russian army advance westward?

2. How is Kovály treated differently at the hospital when it became known that her husband had been arrested?

3. Describe the mass meeting Kovály attended in 1967.

4. Why do Kovály and her friends decide to try to escape the camp guards?

5. What happens in Prague in October of 1941?

6. How does Kovály keep up to date with Margolius' trial when she is in the hospital?

7. What happens when Czec soldiers will not let Kovaly leave becuase she does not have the correct paperwork?

8. Why is Kovály summoned before a Party committee in 1963?

9. What event does Margolius and Kovály attend in 1950, and who greeted them there?

10. Who is arrested in November 1951 and how does it affect Margolius?

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