How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed Quiz

Slavenka Drakulić

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Introduction: The Trivial is Political and Chapter 1: You Can't Drink Your Coffee Alone

Chapter 2: Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague and Chapter 3: Make-up and other Crucial Questions

Chapter 4: I think of Ulrike this night in November and Chapter 5: On Doing Laundry

Chapter 6: A Doll that Grew Old and Chapter 7: Forward to the Past

Chapter 8: A Chat with my Censor and Chapter 9: The Strange Ability of Apartments to Divide and Multiply

Chapter 10: Our Little Stasi and Chapter 11: The Language of Soup

Chapter 12, A Communist Eye or What did I see in New York?

Chapter 13: A Letter from the United States - The Critical Theory Approach

Chapter 14: Some Doubts about Fur Coats and Chapter 15: That Sunday like an Empty Red Balloon

Chapter 16: My First Midnight Mass and Chapter 17: On the Quality of Wall Paint in Eastern Europe

Chapter 18: The Day When They Say That War Will Begin

Chapter 19: How We Survived Communism

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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed Quiz

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed Quiz

Slavenka noticed that people often did what, in preparation for a war? (from Chapter 18: The Day When They Say That War Will Begin)

When dreaming of the future, where did Andrea plan to live? (from Chapter 8: A Chat with my Censor and Chapter 9: The Strange Ability of Apartments to Divide and Multiply)

Under Communist rule, what was the problem with the apartment situation? (from Chapter 8: A Chat with my Censor and Chapter 9: The Strange Ability of Apartments to Divide and Multiply)

Vesna's mother believed that what helped her to survive Communism? (from Chapter 19: How We Survived Communism)

After Slavenka's speech on "the velvet revolution", who got in touch with her? (from Chapter 13: A Letter from the United States - The Critical Theory Approach)