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

2. What does Mama start to doubt?
(a) Karel's truthfulness.
(b) Marketa's good will.
(c) Herself and her memories.
(d) Her sanity.

3. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?
(a) Plan political rallies.
(b) Go skiing.
(c) Attend the theater together.
(d) Have sex together.

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

5. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?
(a) Goes to visit her mother-in-law.
(b) Goes to church for the first time in many years.
(c) Goes to Paris.
(d) Invites her mother-in-law to visit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mama later say about Eva?

3. Why does Mama get embarrassed?

4. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

5. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?

(see the answer key)

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