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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A poem she once recited.
(d) That Marketa had asked her to leave on Sunday.

2. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?
(a) To find a home in a freer country.
(b) To save her political embarrassment.
(c) To save himself.
(d) To save her social embarrassment.

3. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?
(a) Marketa's son.
(b) Marketa's mother.
(c) Karel.
(d) Marketa's sister.

4. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?
(a) He decides to go and jump off a high bridge.
(b) He temporarily loses the men following him in the car.
(c) He goes to borrow a friend's gun.
(d) He calls his mother on his cell phone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mirek feel when he and Zdena break up their relationship?

2. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?

3. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?

4. What is Zdena's response?

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

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