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

2. What happens to Madame Raphael, Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) They go off laughing together.
(b) They are shot.
(c) They are arrested.
(d) They dance and then rise into the sky like angels.

3. What is the subject of the poem?
(a) Politics.
(b) Grief.
(c) Religion.
(d) Hope.

4. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?
(a) The person commits suicide.
(b) The person defects to the West.
(c) The person becomes nicer and softer.
(d) The person has Kundera arrested.

5. When did Mama learn the poem?
(a) She does not remember.
(b) When she is a young girl.
(c) In high school.
(d) In college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle start to cry?

2. What does Mama forget?

3. What does Marketa not know about Eva and Karel?

4. What does Karel do on the phone?

5. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?

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