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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. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Full of inspiration.
(b) Feeling rejected.
(c) Feeling really great.
(d) Fully immersed in his litost.

2. What is Mirek being followed?
(a) He is considered an enemy of the state.
(b) Someone warns the police he is going to kill Zdena.
(c) He has bodyguards in another car.
(d) He stole the car he is driving.

3. When did Mama learn the poem?
(a) She does not remember.
(b) In high school.
(c) When she is a young girl.
(d) In college.

4. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) He died in a hospital with no privacy and her new living arrangements mimic this setting.
(b) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.
(c) There is no similarity.
(d) Neither of them understood the situation.

5. With whom does Kristyna sometimes have an affair?
(a) An auto mechanic.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A physics professor.
(d) A cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poets do to the student's view of Kristyna?

2. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?

3. Why does Mama get embarrassed?

4. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?

5. What does Mama remember when they are all together?

(see the answer key)

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