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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Franz treat Eva at the camp?
(a) He treats her with fatherly concern.
(b) He is verbally abusive.
(c) He treats her like a friend.
(d) He is physically abusive.

2. After finding a place to stay, what immediately happens to Kovály?
(a) She is visited by a former classmate.
(b) She is sent new clothes and a small amount of money.
(c) She is arrested.
(d) She collapses with a fever.

3. How is Russia portrayed to the Czech people?
(a) As stable.
(b) As a failure.
(c) As tumultuous.
(d) A paradise.

4. Which of the following does not describe the political gatherings Kovály attended with her husband?
(a) Tedious.
(b) Constrained.
(c) Artificial.
(d) Joyous.

5. In which city does Kovály grow up?
(a) Prague.
(b) Ostrava.
(c) Liberec.
(d) Brno.

6. In which country is Kovály born?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Romania.
(d) Poland.

7. What news arrives for Kovály almost daily after the war?
(a) News about family members who survive the war.
(b) News about political corruption in the city.
(c) News of some friends or family members' war-time demise.
(d) News about job opportunities abroad.

8. What happens to Kovály's camp as the allied forces advance upon it?
(a) It is disguised as a factory.
(b) It is burned.
(c) It is fortified.
(d) It is partially dismantled.

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

10. How do many people believe Masaryk dies?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Poison.
(d) Torture.

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

12. In 1941, with whom does Kovály live in the ghetto where she is taken?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) Her God parents.
(c) A group of girls around her age.
(d) Her family.

13. In whose hometown does the escape party dissolve?
(a) Andula's.
(b) Zuzka's.
(c) Kovály's.
(d) Hanka's.

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

15. Where does Kovály see a mass demonstration in 1948?
(a) St. Wenceslas Square.
(b) The Písek Gate.
(c) The Lesser Quarter.
(d) The Old New Synagogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people begin offering Kovály after Margolius accepts a high-ranking government job?

2. In 1941, who occupies Kovály's home city?

3. Which of the following does the owner of the publishers NOT instruct Kovály about?

4. While attempting to escape, which of Kovály's group momentarily pleads with the others to go back?

5. To help haul ammunition, Kovály disguises herself as what?

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