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

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

3. Why do the police go to Tamina's apartment?
(a) She calls the police because a derelict is bothering her.
(b) She does not show up for work.
(c) She calls in and her boss can hear a gunshot in the background.
(d) She has been meeting with a politically banned group.

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

5. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
(a) Mirek and Kafta.
(b) No others.
(c) Kafta and Svaboda.
(d) Kundera and Mirek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?

2. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?

3. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?

4. What does Mama start to doubt?

5. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?

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