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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Some political propaganda.
(d) Their daughter.

2. What happens when Tamina and her husband are abroad?
(a) Her husband becomes ill and dies.
(b) Tamina leaves her husband.
(c) Her husband drowns.
(d) Her husband is arrested and is now in prison.

3. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?
(a) Swallows a bottle of prescription pills and swims out into the sea.
(b) Goes to plead for his release.
(c) Returns to Prague.
(d) Takes her children out of the country.

4. What do Kristyna and the student decide?
(a) To marry.
(b) To meet in the city on a particular weekend.
(c) To not see each other again because of her husband.
(d) To travel to Italy.

5. 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) Neither of them understood the situation.
(c) There is no similarity.
(d) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.

6. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?
(a) Kundera's father writes a refutation of Hubl's words.
(b) Kundera's father defects.
(c) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.
(d) Kundera's father becomes ill.

7. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Robert.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Raphael.

8. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?
(a) In Prague.
(b) At his apartment in the city.
(c) In Budapest.
(d) In Poland.

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

10. Why do the children on Tamina's team begin to win games?
(a) They cheat.
(b) Because of Tamina's size and advanced dextrity.
(c) They are the smartest.
(d) They beat up anyone who might start to win.

11. What does litost mean?
(a) A state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
(b) A toast to life.
(c) A toast to misery.
(d) The least weight of all.

12. Where does Voltaire invite the student?
(a) To his home for dinner.
(b) To hear a poetry reading at a pub.
(c) To watch a reenactment of independence day.
(d) A meeting of the Writer's Club.

13. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?
(a) She does not interrupt others with stories about herself.
(b) She nods constantly.
(c) She always seems to understand what someone is saying.
(d) She looks people straight in the eye.

14. What does Husak desire?
(a) To defect to Great Britain.
(b) To kill Kundera.
(c) To take over the country.
(d) To imprison Mirek.

15. What finally happens to Tamina?
(a) She drowns.
(b) She dies in her sleep naturally.
(c) She becomes the oldest of the elderly woman there.
(d) She is hung by the children who keep losing to her team.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the boat with the boy who rows?

2. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

3. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

4. Who is Tamina?

5. What happens to Tamina eventually?

(see the answer keys)

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