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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. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?
(a) She looks people straight in the eye.
(b) She nods constantly.
(c) She always seems to understand what someone is saying.
(d) She does not interrupt others with stories about herself.

2. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?
(a) Pending citizenship.
(b) Legally.
(c) As a non-citizen.
(d) Illegally.

3. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) Away.
(b) With his aunt.
(c) At camp.
(d) She has no son.

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

5. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?
(a) No one.
(b) His mama's friend.
(c) The woman he was just speaking to on the phone.
(d) His last wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Mama start to doubt?

4. Of what is Bibi convinced?

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

(see the answer key)

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