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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 15, 16, and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the police seize from the Margolius' apartment?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Items made of silver.
(c) Documents and cash.
(d) Jewish cultural items.

3. What happens to people who cannot keep up as the camp was evacuated?
(a) They are left to freeze to death.
(b) They are shot.
(c) They are chased by dogs.
(d) They are transported in cars.

4. Who hides some of Kovály's items in her building's basement?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Kovály herself.
(c) Mrs. Machova.
(d) Pavel Kovály.

5. After returning to Prague, Kovály receives a note from Ruda that contains what?
(a) A prayer.
(b) A bank account number.
(c) Passwords.
(d) Directions for avoiding the Gestapo.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which camp is Kovály and her family sent when their ghetto is liquidated?

2. How is Margolius associated with Rudolf Slánský?

3. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?

4. How are the escaped women able to cross the border out of Nazi Germany?

5. What is clear about Communism in Czechoslovakia by the end of 1949?

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