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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 74-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zuckerman imagine himself cleaning while waiting to meet Oldrich Hrobek at a cafe?
(a) A Mercedes Benz.
(b) His apartment.
(c) Penn Station.
(d) An outhouse.

2. When did Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev take the office of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1963.

3. Blecha is terrible at what?
(a) Sex.
(b) Math.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing.

4. What does Zuckerman tell Olga he has come to Prague to get at breakfast?
(a) The money he is owed.
(b) Sisovsky's father's stories.
(c) A family heirloom.
(d) His dignity.

5. What does Olga write, which are beloved by the Czech people?
(a) Existential satires.
(b) Love stories.
(c) Children's farces.
(d) Mystery novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bolotka say hates him when Zuckerman visits his apartment?

2. Sisovsky explains Eva cannot return to Prague because she cannot do what there?

3. When was Philip Roth born?

4. Where is Klenek currently directing film in the narrative?

5. When does Sisovsky say he published one little satire in Prague?

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