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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. In which country is Kovály born?
(a) Romania.
(b) Poland.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Germany.

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

3. Who greets Kovály at Ruda's home?
(a) Ruda himself.
(b) Marta.
(c) Mrs. Machova.
(d) A police officer.

4. To which camp is Kovály and her family sent when their ghetto is liquidated?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Arbeitsdorf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kovály want to focus on besides getting involved with the Communist Party?

2. What happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?

3. While attempting to escape, which of Kovály's group momentarily pleads with the others to go back?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After May 5th, 1945, what does Kovály observe in the final hours of the fight against the Germans?

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

4. What does Kovály discover happened with Margolius' remains?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Kovály hesitant to get involved with the Communist Party?

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