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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 might the person fired have lost?
(a) A means of making a living.
(b) A burgeoning career.
(c) Good political connections.
(d) A prime office location.

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

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

4. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) Out of sympathy.
(b) To be polite and reply to her mother-in-law's letters.
(c) There is no particular reason.
(d) Out of the need for money.

5. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) His philosophy professor.
(b) His father.
(c) His best friend.
(d) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?

2. What will Clementis later be considered?

3. Where does Eva meet Marketa?

4. With what does Mirek profess to be entranced as far as Zdena is concerned?

5. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?

(see the answer key)

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