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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. 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.

2. Who is Bibi?
(a) The owner of the cafe.
(b) A regular customer to the cafe.
(c) A ballerina.
(d) Tamina's lover.

3. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It softens Marketa's perspective on her mother-in-law.
(c) It gives her the perspective to be able to forgive the mother-in-law.
(d) It makes her more determined to steer clear of her mother-in-law.

4. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.
(b) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(c) That she is not welcome to visit them.
(d) That Karel and she are divorcing.

5. What does Tamina do one day?
(a) Kills the biggest boy in the group.
(b) Takes over an entire dorm room.
(c) Tries to swim away from the island.
(d) Teaches the children how to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?

2. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

3. What happens to Tamina eventually?

4. Who is Banaka?

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

(see the answer key)

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