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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 group does Kovály contact after receiving the note from Ruda?
(a) The housing authority.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The Czech Union of Jewish Students.
(d) The local resistance.

2. In which city does Kovály grow up?
(a) Prague.
(b) Liberec.
(c) Ostrava.
(d) Brno.

3. What happens to the national borders as 1948 end?
(a) The borders are extended.
(b) The borders are closed.
(c) The borders are reopened.
(d) The Soviet Union stations their armies at the borders.

4. Who is Mrs. Machova?
(a) Ivan Kovály's teacher.
(b) Kovály's disapproving neighbor.
(c) Kovály's housekeeper.
(d) A friend who looks after Kovály's son.

5. What is the reality of the Russian government?
(a) It rules fairly.
(b) It rules with terror.
(c) It has no real power.
(d) It rules prosperously.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do most of Kovály's friends offer her when she visits?

3. While living in the ghetto, from what does Kovály rescue her invalid cousin?

4. What supply is said to be scarce and often withheld from the people in the camp?

5. Who is Eva?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Nikita Khruschchev came to power in the Soviet Union?

2. What is life like for Kovály as a slave laborer at Auschwitz?

3. What do the Communists admit about the confessions made by political prisoners?

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

5. What is said to have been the main topic of discussion for out of work Czechs after the war?

6. After Margolius' death, why does Kovály worry that she would be arrested?

7. How does Kovály describe the feeling in Prague by the middle of 1951?

8. Describe Kovály's difficulties in obtaining a death certificate for Margolius.

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

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

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