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

2. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?
(a) Child workers.
(b) Illegal immigrants.
(c) Convicted criminals.
(d) The elderly and destitute.

3. Who is Franz?
(a) A Nazi guard who often acts as executioner.
(b) A Nazi guard who gives food to the camp inmates.
(c) A Nazi guard who occasionally lets prisoners escape.
(d) A man Kovály knows from her old neighborhood.

4. Faced with a bad economy, what do people do a few months before the end of the war?
(a) Loot and riot.
(b) Pawn their possessions.
(c) Take all their money from the banks.
(d) Hoard.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to Jews, what other group in Kovály's home city are forcibly evacuated from the city?

3. Who offers Kovály an apartment where she can stay?

4. In 1947 and early 1948, from what does Kovály isolate herself?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does an old friend in the country encourage Margolius to do?

3. How does Kovály get back to Prague?

4. How are Kovály and Margolius able to communicate after his arrest?

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

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

7. How does Machova intervene when the Communists sent a team in to catalogue Kovály's possessions for later seizure?

8. Where is Kovály's family when the Soviet occupation occurred?

9. What happens to Kovály's family at Auschwitz?

10. Describe the mass meeting Kovály attended in 1967.

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