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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 does Zdena urge Mirek to do?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Make a deal with his political party.
(c) Reconcile with her.
(d) Leave the country.

2. What does Kundera have the urge to do?
(a) To kill his former boss.
(b) Escape to another country.
(c) To rape his former boss.
(d) To kidnap his former boss.

3. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?
(a) He thought she was terribly witty.
(b) His mother and her mother are close friends.
(c) He does not have the confidence to approach a beautiful woman.
(d) She is confident and is going places.

4. Who wrote RHINOCEROS?
(a) Eugene O'Neill.
(b) Lillian Helmet.
(c) Eugene Ionesco.
(d) William Tennessee.

5. What does Mama forget?
(a) To pack her pajamas.
(b) The last line of the poem.
(c) To bring her toothbrush.
(d) To cook the pasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kundera watch in the ring?

2. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?

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

4. What does Tamina find within herself?

5. What year is it when the book opens?

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