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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 start to doubt?
(a) Marketa's good will.
(b) Herself and her memories.
(c) Her sanity.
(d) Karel's truthfulness.

2. Why does Mama get embarrassed?
(a) The others think the poem is incomprehensible.
(b) Because Karel corrects her.
(c) Because Marketa corrects her.
(d) The others think the poem is dumb.

3. Who addresses the Czech people?
(a) Zedena.
(b) Mirek.
(c) Marketa.
(d) Klement Gottwald.

4. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That Karel and she are divorcing.
(b) That she is not welcome to visit them.
(c) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(d) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.

5. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?
(a) His mama's friend.
(b) The woman he was just speaking to on the phone.
(c) His last wife.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?

2. What does Mama later say about Eva?

3. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?

4. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?

5. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

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