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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many months is Kovály hidden by the resistance?

2. How does Kovály get herself an apartment after the end of the war?

3. Who moves into Kovály's apartment with her?

4. Who greets Kovály at Ruda's home?

5. What is the most appealing form of government for the majority of Czechs following the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kovály do during her five months being hidden by the resistance?

2. How does the Margolius' lives change after Rudolf accepts a high-ranking government job?

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

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

5. What happens economically in the spring of 1953?

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

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

8. What happens economically in Prague shortly after the war's end?

9. What does Margolius have to say in his court statements?

10. What brought the war to a conclusion for Kovály personally?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Iron Curtain. What is the Iron Curtain? What does the Iron Curtain have to do with Czechoslovakia? Does it affect Kovály directly? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Kovály's second husband, Pavel Kovály. How do they meet? What happens to Pavel after he marries Heda? Why does this happen?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of fear and terror in "Under A Cruel Star." Of what is Kovály and the citizens of Czechoslovakia fearful? How is their fear conveyed to others? How does Kovály experience the fear of others? How does this fear affect her? Who is terrorizing Czechoslovakia and why? How are they spreading terror?

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