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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) At camp.
(b) With his aunt.
(c) She has no son.
(d) Away.

2. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?
(a) Plan political rallies.
(b) Have sex together.
(c) Attend the theater together.
(d) Go skiing.

3. Where does Kundera remember a number of historical events happening?
(a) Bohemia and Ukraine.
(b) Czech Republic and Ukraine.
(c) Russia and Bohemia.
(d) Bohemia and the Czech Republic.

4. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?
(a) He does not have the confidence to approach a beautiful woman.
(b) She is confident and is going places.
(c) His mother and her mother are close friends.
(d) He thought she was terribly witty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?

2. To what year does the story next flash forward?

3. Why does Marketa not feel threatened by Eva?

4. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?

5. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?

(see the answer key)

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