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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?
(a) A parcel.
(b) Some of Tamina's clothes.
(c) Pictures of Tamina's son.
(d) Pictures of Tamina's daughter.

2. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?
(a) In class with someone referred to as Voltaire.
(b) He is in prison for distributing propaganda against the state.
(c) He is in his apartment waiting for Kristyna.
(d) With a friend at a pub.

3. To where will Jan be soon moving?
(a) Mexico.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) The United States.

4. After leaving the ring, what does Kundera do?
(a) He wanders the streets outside of the rings of celebrants.
(b) He moves to the USSR.
(c) He defects to Britian.
(d) He moves to Budapest.

5. What is a consequence of the trip for Passer?
(a) He is angry that his other friends treat him like an invalid.
(b) He is ill for a couple days and lies in his bed at home reading.
(c) He reconciles with his brother.
(d) A trip to the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives while the mother-in-law is still there?

2. What does the woman on the train do?

3. In what is Mirek reveling?

4. To what year does the story next flash forward?

5. Who are two people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?

(see the answer key)

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