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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surviving the initial selection at Auschwitz, Kovály is assigned what work?
(a) Physical labor.
(b) Drafting of maps.
(c) Cleaning duties.
(d) Food preparation.

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

3. In the ghetto where she is taken, Kovály assists a person of which profession?
(a) An artist.
(b) A writer.
(c) A physician.
(d) A teacher.

4. What name does Kovály give her first child?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Adam.
(c) Tomáš.
(d) Jakub.

5. How does Margolius feel about his work for the Communist Party?
(a) He does his work without conviction.
(b) He is devoted to it.
(c) He feels he is working against Czechoslovakia's best interests.
(d) He is indifferent to his role.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many people believe Masaryk dies?

2. In what year is the ghetto liquidated?

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

4. What happens in Prague on May 5th, 1945?

5. What happens to the national borders as 1948 end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in Czechoslovakia as 1948 drew to a close?

2. What happens as Kovály and her friends make their escape from the barn where the camp inmates are staying?

3. What minor miracle does Bartos achieve for Kovály which enabled her to visit a hospital?

4. What is the Czechoslovakian economy like around 1950-51?

5. What response does Kovály get when she asks her friends in Prague for help?

6. What does Kovály discover happened with Margolius' remains?

7. What happens when Czec soldiers will not let Kovaly leave becuase she does not have the correct paperwork?

8. Why is Communism appealing to the Czech people after the war?

9. What do the Communists admit about the confessions made by political prisoners?

10. Why do Kovály and her friends decide to try to escape the camp guards?

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