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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 Marketa ask Eva to do?
(a) Talk to the director of the coop to stop the police searches.
(b) Stay at the hotel near them.
(c) Come another time.
(d) Pretend Eva is Marketa's cousin.

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

3. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?
(a) There has to be a lot of left-handed people.
(b) The people must be angry and want change.
(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.

4. Who addresses the Czech people?
(a) Zedena.
(b) Mirek.
(c) Klement Gottwald.
(d) Marketa.

5. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?
(a) The transmission is no good.
(b) His tire is flat and can't be replaced.
(c) He learns he has a blown head gasket.
(d) The attendant is not happy about serving him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kundera remember a number of historical events happening?

2. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?

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

4. What is Klement Gottwald doing?

5. What year is it when the book opens?

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