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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: The Poet on the Run, pp. 161-181.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maman weep as the artist makes love to her?
(a) She knows that she is nothing more than the canvas for his ideas.
(b) She equates him to the Apollo statue, which she had wanted to be the model of Jaromil's personality.
(c) She is finally ashamed of the affair.
(d) She is sad that she will never marry him.

2. How do Jaromil and Maman reach the lake resort?
(a) By train.
(b) By car.
(c) By train and buggy.
(d) By walking.

3. What does Jaromil do when the redhead catches him staring through her apartment window?
(a) Knocks on her door.
(b) Keeps staring unabashedly.
(c) Brings her flowers.
(d) Runs away.

4. What do Jaromil's classmates find most irritating about him?
(a) He received more Christmas presents than any of them did.
(b) He has more money than they do.
(c) Mother love clings to everything he has.
(d) He does not join in any of their games.

5. Why does Jaromil write so many poems about women's bodies?
(a) He is obsessed with how women's bodies look.
(b) He wants to immortalize the body of his first lover.
(c) He wants to establish himself as a romantic poet.
(d) The body is beyond the reach of his understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maman have complete control of her son?

2. What idea about poetry does the artist's chastisement cause in Jaromil's mind?

3. According to Kundera, what is "the first precondition of freedom" (Part III, Chapter 18, pg 121)?

4. What is the primary reason that Xavier runs into danger ahead of his comrades?

5. What is the artist's opinion about Jaromil's drawings of headless women?

(see the answer key)

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