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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Angels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?
(a) It is full of strange animals.
(b) It is full of children.
(c) It is deserted.
(d) It is full of lush vegetation and has a few elderly women.

2. What do the members of the ring do?
(a) They drop exhausted to the ground.
(b) They eventually dance their way into the sky and float away, happily.
(c) They suddenly disperse screaming.
(d) They stop and silently go their separate ways.

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 do Kristyna and the person she meets do?
(a) Argues about Kristyna moving to London.
(b) Get to know each other.
(c) Tell each other all about her life over the past twenty years.
(d) Have an emotional affair.

5. What happens to Tamina after she sleeps with Hugo?
(a) She is silent permanently.
(b) She cries.
(c) She regains her voice and words.
(d) She tells him to leave her home and never come back.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year is it when the book opens?

3. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?

4. How does Kundera feel about the dancing?

5. What language is the word litost?

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