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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. Which of the following does NOT describe Kovály when she arrives at the camp?
(a) Healthy.
(b) Young.
(c) Sickly.
(d) Strong.

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

3. What does Kovály see while walking by a river that brings the war to a personal conclusion?
(a) Children playing.
(b) A dead SS Soldier.
(c) Flowers in bloom.
(d) Nazi propaganda posters being torn down.

4. In whose hometown does the escape party dissolve?
(a) Zuzka's.
(b) Hanka's.
(c) Andula's.
(d) Kovály's.

5. For what does Franta seek forgiveness from Kovály?
(a) For turning her in to the Gestapo.
(b) For taking some of her money.
(c) For turning her away when she needs help.
(d) For not being able to get her an apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her time in hiding, what does Kovály wish she could go outside to do?

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

3. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?

4. On one occasion, Kovály discovers the body of an acquaintance covered with what?

5. What position does Margolius secure in the government?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following her meeting with the Party committee in 1963, what does Kovály make efforts to have done?

2. How does Kovály secure herself an apartment following the war?

3. Describe what occurrs in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1968.

4. What happens as Kovály and her friends make their escape from the barn where the camp inmates are staying?

5. After her husband is arrested, what do state policemen come to her apartment to do?

6. What is contained in the note that Ruda sends Kovály after she settles in his apartment?

7. What is the Czechoslovakian economy like around 1950-51?

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

9. What does Kovály remember about a Nazi guard named Franz?

10. What happens to the people who return to Prague from concentration camps after the war?

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