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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Margolius family move after Rudolf accepts his high-ranking government job?
(a) To Ostrava.
(b) To America.
(c) A better part of Prague.
(d) To the Soviet Union.

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

3. Faced with a bad economy, what do people do a few months before the end of the war?
(a) Take all their money from the banks.
(b) Pawn their possessions.
(c) Loot and riot.
(d) Hoard.

4. Where does Kovály realize some important Communist officers live?
(a) In the poorest Prague neighborhoods.
(b) In former Jewish neighborhoods.
(c) In luxury apartments.
(d) Next door to her family.

5. This is the only Jewish person Kovály knew before the war who returns to Prague?
(a) Vlada.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) The local Rabbi.
(d) Rudolf Margolius.

6. What happens to many smaller companies as 1948 comes to an end?
(a) They were nationalized.
(b) They are collectivized.
(c) They are unionized.
(d) They are shut-down.

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

8. How do Kovály's friends begin to treat her after Margolius accepts his high-ranking government job?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With great deference.
(c) With affection.
(d) With hostility.

9. In 1947 and early 1948, from what does Kovály isolate herself?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Political discussions.
(d) The outside world.

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

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

12. How are the escaped women able to cross the border out of Nazi Germany?
(a) They receive help from a Greman officer.
(b) They follow a river out of Germany.
(c) They hide in the back of an army truck.
(d) They sneak across a border checkpoint.

13. How does Kovály get herself an apartment after the end of the war?
(a) She waits patiently until one comes available.
(b) She moves into the housing authority's offices.
(c) She is awarded it in a lottery.
(d) She lies about her identity.

14. In 1941, who occupies Kovály's home city?
(a) Nazi Germany.
(b) The Soviets.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Americans.

15. Which army is said to be advancing westward in late 1944?
(a) The Chinese army.
(b) The Russian army.
(c) The British army.
(d) The American army.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is the ghetto liquidated?

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

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

4. Which of the following does not describe the political gatherings Kovály attended with her husband?

5. After the end of the war, which one of Kovály's friends gives her a place to stay?

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