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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 is the subject of the poem?
(a) Politics.
(b) Hope.
(c) Grief.
(d) Religion.

2. What is Tamina not doing?
(a) Staying in touch with her husband in prison.
(b) Taking care of herself.
(c) Trying to create a present or future for herself.
(d) Thinking of her children.

3. Who arrives while the mother-in-law is still there?
(a) The group of political conspirators.
(b) Eva.
(c) Marketa's son.
(d) The police.

4. Where does Eva meet Marketa?
(a) In a spa.
(b) At college.
(c) At a ski resort.
(d) At a political rally.

5. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?
(a) They think the other one is too radical.
(b) They are instantly friends.
(c) They don't think they like each other.
(d) They feel competitive with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?

2. Why does Mama get embarrassed?

3. What is graphomania?

4. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

5. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?

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