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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Lost Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is it when the book opens?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1918.

2. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?
(a) He does not have the confidence to approach a beautiful woman.
(b) He thought she was terribly witty.
(c) She is confident and is going places.
(d) His mother and her mother are close friends.

3. What do the police find?
(a) Some illegal weapons.
(b) The letters that Mirek kept between colleagues and friends.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A baggie of drugs.

4. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?
(a) He goes to borrow a friend's gun.
(b) He temporarily loses the men following him in the car.
(c) He decides to go and jump off a high bridge.
(d) He calls his mother on his cell phone.

5. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?
(a) To find a home in a freer country.
(b) To save himself.
(c) To save her political embarrassment.
(d) To save her social embarrassment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mirek arrive?

2. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?

3. What is Klement Gottwald doing?

4. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?

5. Where does Kundera remember a number of historical events happening?

(see the answer key)

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