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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Angels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?
(a) All Tamina and her husband's love letters.
(b) Their son.
(c) Their daughter.
(d) Some political propaganda.

2. Who is Tamina?
(a) She is one of the two or three fictionalized characters that Kundera assumes are born every second on earth.
(b) She is a secondary character and a cousin to Kundera.
(c) She is Kundera's second wife.
(d) We are never told anything about her.

3. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.
(b) That she is not welcome to visit them.
(c) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(d) That Karel and she are divorcing.

4. How does Tamina spend her time?
(a) Taking care of her other children.
(b) Recreating her husband and their time together.
(c) Working.
(d) Writing letters to get her husband released from prison.

5. What does Tamina do one day?
(a) Takes over an entire dorm room.
(b) Tries to swim away from the island.
(c) Kills the biggest boy in the group.
(d) Teaches the children how to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?

2. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?

3. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

4. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

5. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?

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