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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. Who insists the policemen must search Zuckerman's belongings when he returns to the hotel with the manuscript?
2. Bolotka entered college to study what?
3. What does Olga say Sisovsky will do with the stories if he gets them?
4. Why does Olga ask to switch tables at the hotel dining room?
5. What profession did Novak's father hold?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Bolotka enter university? What was his major? What did he want to change it to?
2. What does Olga ask Zuckerman to tell her in his hotel room? What does she suggest about his speech?
3. What story does Olga relate over breakfast about having been taken to an office building by the authorities?
4. What did Blecha drunkenly admit to Bolotka one night? What was Bolotka's response?
5. What does Novak represent symbolically in the narrative?
6. What is the major difference between Zuckerman and the other characters in "The Prague Orgy"?
7. Who does Zuckerman ride to the airport with in the end of the novel? What literary work does he discuss?
8. Where does Oldrick Hrobek ask Zuckerman to meet him when he leaves the hotel? Where is Olga?
9. What position does Blecha hold now in the narrative? What did he recently offer to help Bolotka with?
10. Why does Olga choose not to hurt Sisovsky by giving up the manuscript?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss the objectives, actions and obstacles of the characters in pages 32-39. Why did Zuckerman actually come to Klenek's? What does Zuckerman want from Olga? What does Olga want?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the sexuality illustrated at the orgy party at Klenek's and how Olga fits into these surroundings. How does Olga's book reveal herself as a character?
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