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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Croatian government watch Slavenka?
(a) She had friends outside the country.
(b) All of these.
(c) She was a feminist.
(d) She had friends against the State.

2. What product did Slavenka attempt to get her daughter to use, to much objection?
(a) Lye soap.
(b) Baking soda for toothpaste.
(c) A comb instead of a hairbrush.
(d) Rough toilet paper.

3. When did Croatia become a democracy?
(a) Before World War II.
(b) 1978.
(c) After the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) 1950.

4. How did the young and unemployed feel about the living situation under Communist rule?
(a) They did not complain.
(b) They complained to family.
(c) They complained to the news.
(d) They complained to each other.

5. What did Andrea do for a living?
(a) Professor.
(b) Painter.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Slavenka and Ulrike travel to together?

2. Under Communist rule, how big were the apartments most young professionals lived in?

3. How did Tanja die?

4. Why did Slavenka visit East Berlin in "A Doll that Grew Old"?

5. At the beginning of "Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague", where did Slavenka and Jolanta go for a visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Eastern Europe have to fight for, following the fall of Communism?

2. Why was Slavenka startled to find a notated Bible amongst Tanja's possessions?

3. Why was Slavenka disappointed after the fall of Communism?

4. Why did Slavenka have to learn of Ulrike's past from a friend rather than Ulrike?

5. Why did people trade space in their apartments?

6. In order to have a positive future, the people of Eastern Europe had to learn to do what?

7. When Eastern European women had problems, who did they blame?

8. How did Tanja's lover die?

9. Why was Slavenka concerned that Americans could not imagine what it would be like to live in a Communist society?

10. In Communist times, what steps made up the beauty routine of Slavenka's mother?

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