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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Klement Gottwald doing?
(a) Escaping through the mountains.
(b) Crying.
(c) Stepping out on a balcony to make a speech.
(d) Sliding down a mountain on skis.

2. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?
(a) He does not trust it.
(b) He thinks it is bad advice.
(c) He has no opinion until he checks things out.
(d) He thinks she is right and trusts her to tell him the truth.

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

4. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?
(a) He marries someone else.
(b) Bad things.
(c) Good things.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?
(a) No one.
(b) Madame Raphael's political cell.
(c) Madame Raphael's support group.
(d) Madame Raphael's class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it when the book opens?

2. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?

3. What happens to Mirek and his son?

4. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?

5. Where does Kundera meet his former boss?

(see the answer key)

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