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

2. What does Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter elicit?
(a) A more in-depth discussion of laughter.
(b) A slap from Sister Maria who is teaching the class.
(c) A hushing noise from another person.
(d) A grimace from Madame Raphael.

3. When did Mama learn the poem?
(a) When she is a young girl.
(b) In college.
(c) In high school.
(d) She does not remember.

4. Who is Tamina?
(a) She is one of the two or three fictionalized characters that Kundera assumes are born every second on earth.
(b) She is a secondary character and a cousin to Kundera.
(c) She is Kundera's second wife.
(d) We are never told anything about her.

5. What is the subject of the poem?
(a) Hope.
(b) Religion.
(c) Grief.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Kundera asked to leave the ring?

2. What does Karel do on the phone?

3. Why do students dance in a ring?

4. Who does Kundera watch in the ring?

5. What do the police find?

(see the answer key)

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