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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. In 1941, who occupies Kovály's home city?
2. Who is Jan Masaryk?
3. While attempting to escape, which of Kovály's group momentarily pleads with the others to go back?
4. In the ghetto where she is taken, Kovály assists a person of which profession?
5. What does Kovály want to focus on besides getting involved with the Communist Party?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Machova intervene when the Communists sent a team in to catalogue Kovály's possessions for later seizure?
2. Following her meeting with the Party committee in 1963, what does Kovály make efforts to have done?
3. What happens economically in Prague shortly after the war's end?
4. What happens as Kovály and her friends make their escape from the barn where the camp inmates are staying?
5. How are Kovály and Margolius able to communicate after his arrest?
6. What is life like for Kovály in the ghetto?
7. How is Kovály treated differently at the hospital when it became known that her husband had been arrested?
8. Describe Kovály's difficulties in obtaining a death certificate for Margolius.
9. What is life like for Kovály as a slave laborer at Auschwitz?
10. What does Kovály remember about a Nazi guard named Franz?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the historical relevance of this story? Why is Kovály's story important to read about? What elements of this story are relevant and why?
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 hope and hopelessness in "Under A Cruel Star." When does Kovály feel hopelessness? How does she cope with this feeling? What causes her to feel this way? How does she overcome this feeling? What brings her hope? How is she able to remain hopeful despite the awful situations she faces?
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