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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 Tamina spend her time?
(a) Taking care of her other children.
(b) Recreating her husband and their time together.
(c) Working.
(d) Writing letters to get her husband released from prison.

2. What does Mama remember when they are all together?
(a) That Eva once visited Mama's house with Karel.
(b) Where she has met Eva before.
(c) That Marketa had asked her to leave on Sunday.
(d) A poem she once recited.

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

4. Where does Kundera remember a number of historical events happening?
(a) Bohemia and the Czech Republic.
(b) Czech Republic and Ukraine.
(c) Bohemia and Ukraine.
(d) Russia and Bohemia.

5. What happens to Madame Raphael, Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) They are arrested.
(b) They go off laughing together.
(c) They dance and then rise into the sky like angels.
(d) They are shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karel do on the phone?

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

3. Why is Mirek driving to see Zdena?

4. Why do students dance in a ring?

5. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?

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