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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. What did the Gestapo officer come to Sisovsky's father's house every day to do during World War II?
2. When did Sisovsky's father die?
3. What was the man Eva left her husband for?
4. What was the name of the man Eva left her husband for in the narrative?
5. What does Sisovsky say his father belonged to, in his meeting with Zuckerman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reaction does Olga receive after exposing herself at Klenek's?
2. What does Olga beg of Zuckerman before he leaves the party at Klenek's? What does Bolotka tell him upon parting?
3. What does Olga demand before exposing herself at the orgy party? Where is Olga's lover, according to Bolotka?
4. What do Mr. Vodicka an the gay boy at Klenek's represent symbolically?
5. How does Philip Roth illustrate Sisovsky's sense of identity in the U.S.?
6. What causes Eva to storm out from the dinner with Zuckerman and Sisovsky in the beginning of the novel?
7. Discuss the theme of voyeurism and spying in the narrative. How is this shown at Klenek's?
8. How does Zuckerman's view of his Jewish identity evolve from the dinner with Sisovsky through the narrative?
9. Why does Sisovsky tell Zuckerman his novel is banned? Why did he leave Czechoslovakia?
10. What took place that led to Sisovsky's father being shot? Who murdered him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the history of Judaism and the impact that World War II had on Jews in Europe. When did Zuckerman's family come to America? When did Sisovsky?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Sisovsky's father's story as described to Zuckerman in pages 18-23. What power did the Gestapo have? How common was it for Gestapo officers to protect Jews?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of Jewish identity, and how Philip Roth incorporates this theme into "The Prague Orgy" and his other works. What works by Roth are centered on the theme? How does "theme" differ from "subject" in a work of literature?
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