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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Helena.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Helena doing at the age of eighteen?
(a) Schoolwork.
(b) Raising her child.
(c) Espionage.
(d) In the gallows.

2. What floor does Kostka live on?
(a) The fourth floor.
(b) The fifth floor.
(c) The third floor.
(d) The second floor.

3. How does the narrator view the town square of his hometown after his long absence?
(a) He finds it charming.
(b) He finds it changed from his memory.
(c) He finds it unsightly.
(d) He finds it beautiful.

4. How does Zdena feel about Zemanek?
(a) She likes him enough to get by.
(b) She loathes him.
(c) She worships him.
(d) She is impartial to him.

5. What does Helena like about Ludvik?
(a) He is changable.
(b) He is normal and straightforward.
(c) He is strange and mysterious.
(d) He is melancholy and artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Helena meet Zemanek?

2. Ludvik and Kostka, just before Kostka returns to the hospital, come to an ideological impasse. How long ago were they in the same position?

3. What is the state of Ludvik's hotel room?

4. What organ does Helena have trouble with, under the slightest bit of exertion?

5. Why is Helena going to Moravia?

(see the answer key)

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