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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Mama.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Mirek driving to see Zdena?
(a) To retrieve some old love letters.
(b) To give her a present.
(c) To kill her.
(d) To ask her to marry him.

2. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?
(a) Goes to Paris.
(b) Goes to visit her mother-in-law.
(c) Goes to church for the first time in many years.
(d) Invites her mother-in-law to visit.

3. Where does Mirek arrive?
(a) At Zdena's country estate.
(b) At Zdena's apartment.
(c) At the border to the Ukraine.
(d) At his mother's apartment.

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

5. To what year does the story next flash forward?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

2. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?

3. Who addresses the Czech people?

4. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?

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

(see the answer key)

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