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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague and Chapter 3: Make-up and other Crucial Questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Communist state want to create a uniform, physical appearance amongst women?
(a) To prevent pregnancy.
(b) To confuse them.
(c) To create equality.
(d) To shame them.

2. Due to a Communist mind-set, what did Tanja lack?
(a) Friends.
(b) Humility.
(c) Hope.
(d) Empathy.

3. At the beginning of this book, Yugoslavia celebrated its one-year anniversary of what?
(a) An alliance with England.
(b) Free elections.
(c) Switching to the dollar.
(d) The beginning of Communism.

4. What topics did Slavenka and Evelinka's dinner party guests discuss?
(a) Internet start-ups.
(b) The opera and the theatre.
(c) The latest fashions.
(d) Opposition papers and elections.

5. When year did Tanja die?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tanja outline passages about death?

2. How did the people of Eastern Europe feel about the collapse of Communism?

3. What mentality permeated the people of Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism?

4. What did America represent to Slavenka?

5. What was Tanja forbidden to do, following her article against socialism?

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