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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kovály want to focus on besides getting involved with the Communist Party?
(a) Having a family.
(b) Fighting for democracy.
(c) Rebuilding Prague.
(d) Emigrating to America.

2. Who is Franz?
(a) A Nazi guard who gives food to the camp inmates.
(b) A Nazi guard who occasionally lets prisoners escape.
(c) A man Kovály knows from her old neighborhood.
(d) A Nazi guard who often acts as executioner.

3. What happens economically in Czechoslovakia as Communism takes hold?
(a) The economy grows by fifty percent.
(b) The economy slows to a crawl.
(c) Economic activity returns to its pre-war levels.
(d) The economy booms.

4. What happens to many of the people who return to Prague from the concentration camps?
(a) They are turned to the streets.
(b) They are imprisoned.
(c) They are returned to their homes.
(d) They are given free housing outside of Prague.

5. Which area does the escaped women enter after leaving Nazi Germany?
(a) Romania.
(b) Austria.
(c) The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kovály notice is happening to her family in January 1952?

2. Which army reaches Prague in May 1945?

3. What form of government does Franta want Czechoslovakia to have?

4. Where does Kovály see a mass demonstration in 1948?

5. In 1947 and early 1948, from what does Kovály isolate herself?

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