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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 is Klement Gottwald doing?
(a) Crying.
(b) Escaping through the mountains.
(c) Stepping out on a balcony to make a speech.
(d) Sliding down a mountain on skis.

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

3. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?
(a) That it was sad they had to move.
(b) That his parents were so kind to let them stay there, they'd like to return the favor someday.
(c) They want to live as far away from his mother as possible.
(d) That it was a nightmare to live there.

4. Where does Tamina work?
(a) We are not told.
(b) As a waitress at a cafe.
(c) As a secretary to the Minister of Justice.
(d) As a nanny to one of the big Communist Bosses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Banaka?

2. What are Eva, Karel and Marketa doing when Mama is in her room?

3. Why is Kundera asked to leave the ring?

4. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?

5. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?

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