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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 is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?
(a) She has no pictures of him.
(b) His passport photo.
(c) A baby picture.
(d) A picture of him when he is 12.

3. Why does Hugo take Tamina to the zoo?
(a) To impress her.
(b) To show her a new monkey species that was found.
(c) To show her a new exhibit he had planned.
(d) To teach her about drawing birds.

4. What are Eva, Karel and Marketa doing when Mama is in her room?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Singing karaoke.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Shooting darts.

5. What does Karel do on the phone?
(a) Call a nursing home for his mother.
(b) Talk to Eva's husband.
(c) Arrange another sexual liaison.
(d) Talk to his publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?

2. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

3. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?

4. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?

5. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

(see the answer key)

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