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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While party officials publicly extol the virtues of proletariat work, what is going on in secret among government officials?
(a) Planning to create job opportunities.
(b) Volunteer work.
(c) Widespread corruption.
(d) Military lotting to declare war on the Soviet Union.

2. Which of the following does the owner of the publishers NOT instruct Kovály about?
(a) Prague.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) Art.

3. Who is Mrs. Machova?
(a) Ivan Kovály's teacher.
(b) A friend who looks after Kovály's son.
(c) Kovály's disapproving neighbor.
(d) Kovály's housekeeper.

4. What position for a publisher does Kovály secure for herself in 1946?
(a) Production artist.
(b) Art editor.
(c) Proofreader.
(d) Translator.

5. In what year does Kovály's have a baby?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her time in hiding, what does Kovály wish she could go outside to do?

2. What happens to Kovály's cousin days after she rescues him?

3. What happens to many of the people who return to Prague from the concentration camps?

4. What is the reality of the Russian government?

5. For how many months is Kovály hidden by the resistance?

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