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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the summer of 1953, Kovály volunteers to help with what?
(a) The harvest.
(b) A public building project.
(c) A friend's anniversary party.
(d) A Communist rally.

2. How is Margolius personally impacted by Slánský's arrest?
(a) The arrest means Margolius' gets a promotion at work.
(b) The arrest makes Margolius question the Communist government for the first time.
(c) The arrest makes Margolius regret his friendship with Slánský.
(d) The arrest makes Margolius paranoid.

3. By the time Margolius is arrested, about how many other citizens had been arrested?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) Fifty thousand.
(c) Seven hundred.
(d) One thousand.

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

5. What happens to the people who are staying in Auschwitz as the allied forces advance?
(a) They are relocated via train.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are released.
(d) They are marched westward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are the camp inmates staying when Kovály and her acquaintances decide to escape?

3. At his trial, to what crime does Margolius confess?

4. After the change of power in 1956, what does The Party admit in regards to the confessions of political prisoners?

5. Who is Jan Masaryk?

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