Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Heda Margolius Kovaly
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Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Heda Margolius Kovaly
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which country is the ghetto that Kovály and her family are taken located?

2. Which of Kovály's friends also returns with Franta?

3. Which group does Kovály contact after receiving the note from Ruda?

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

5. In what year does Kovály's have a baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kovály secure herself an apartment following the war?

2. After Margolius' death, why does Kovály worry that she would be arrested?

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

4. What does Kovály realize by attending Communist Party meetings?

5. What does Kovály do during her five months being hidden by the resistance?

6. What happens to the people who return to Prague from concentration camps after the war?

7. Of what does Kovály discover the politicians wives are fearful?

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

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

10. What happens economically in the spring of 1953?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of fear and terror in "Under A Cruel Star." Of what is Kovály and the citizens of Czechoslovakia fearful? How is their fear conveyed to others? How does Kovály experience the fear of others? How does this fear affect her? Who is terrorizing Czechoslovakia and why? How are they spreading terror?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of ostracism in "Under a Cruel Star." How is Kovály ostracized throughout the narrative? Why is she ostracized? How does this ostracism affect her life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Kovály's first husband, Rudolf Margolius. How do they meet? What are Margolius' defining character traits? What is his job? What are his political beliefs? Why is he arrested? Why is Kovály's marriage to Margolius strained? Of What is Margolius accused? How does he die?

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