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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) Away.
(b) She has no son.
(c) At camp.
(d) With his aunt.

2. Who arrives while the mother-in-law is still there?
(a) The police.
(b) Marketa's son.
(c) The group of political conspirators.
(d) Eva.

3. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) To believe Eva is in love with her.
(b) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.
(c) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.
(d) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.

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

5. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?
(a) To make him look like Marketa.
(b) To conceal who he is.
(c) His head is bare and it is very cold.
(d) To make him look ridiculous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police find?

2. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?

3. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?

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

5. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

(see the answer key)

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