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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Lost Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?
(a) The people must be angry and want change.
(b) There has to be a lot of left-handed people.
(c) The people in the society must have an elevated sense of well-being.
(d) The people must be oppressed so they are motivated to speak out.

2. Why does Mama get embarrassed?
(a) Because Karel corrects her.
(b) Because Marketa corrects her.
(c) The others think the poem is dumb.
(d) The others think the poem is incomprehensible.

3. Where does Mirek arrive?
(a) At Zdena's apartment.
(b) At the border to the Ukraine.
(c) At Zdena's country estate.
(d) At his mother's apartment.

4. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.
(b) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.
(c) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.
(d) To believe Eva is in love with her.

5. What is Mirek being followed?
(a) Someone warns the police he is going to kill Zdena.
(b) He stole the car he is driving.
(c) He has bodyguards in another car.
(d) He is considered an enemy of the state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote RHINOCEROS?

2. When did Marketa dislike her mother-in-law?

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

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

5. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

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