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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. What does Tamina think the ostriches are doing?
(a) Teaching her.
(b) Asking for mercy.
(c) Laughing at her.
(d) Warning her.

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

3. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
(a) Gives him some candy for energy.
(b) Tosses him overboard.
(c) Takes over rowing.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) Neither of them understood the situation.
(b) There is no similarity.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?

2. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?

3. How does Tamina spend her time?

4. What does Marketa not know about Eva and Karel?

5. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?

(see the answer key)

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