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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. Which army reaches Prague in May 1945?

2. What position for a publisher does Kovály secure for herself in 1946?

3. In 1941, who occupies Kovály's home city?

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

5. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What response does Kovály get when she asks her friends in Prague for help?

2. What is Kovály's last meeting with Margolius like?

3. What happens economically in the spring of 1953?

4. Describe what occurrs in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1968.

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

6. What treatment does Kovály receive following Margolius' arrest?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Kovály's first husband, Rudolf Margolius. How do they meet? What are Margolius' defining character traits? What is his job? What are his political beliefs? Why is he arrested? Why is Kovály's marriage to Margolius strained? Of What is Margolius accused? How does he die?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of ostracism in "Under a Cruel Star." How is Kovály ostracized throughout the narrative? Why is she ostracized? How does this ostracism affect her life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the portrayal of the Nazi concentration camps in "Under A Cruel Star." What are some anecdotes that Kovály shares with the reader? What is Kovály's personal experience in the concentration camps like? How does she overcome this trying period in her life?

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