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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. How does the narrator describe Tamina?
(a) As a empty husk.
(b) As on a raft looking back.
(c) As a empty soul with no life.
(d) As a lost soul whose shape is set in the past.

2. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle start to cry?
(a) They get in the way of some falling debris.
(b) They are laughed at.
(c) They are kicked.
(d) They fall when trying to dance.

3. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?
(a) Swallows a bottle of prescription pills and swims out into the sea.
(b) Returns to Prague.
(c) Takes her children out of the country.
(d) Goes to plead for his release.

4. What does Tamina find within herself?
(a) A tendency to wander mentally.
(b) Anger like she has never known.
(c) A treasured silence.
(d) Resilience.

5. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?
(a) That they are the same age.
(b) That she has never told him her age.
(c) That she is much younger than he is.
(d) That she is older than he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?

2. What does Mama later say about Eva?

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

4. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?

5. What is Tamina not doing?

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