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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 does Marketa ask Eva to do?
(a) Stay at the hotel near them.
(b) Talk to the director of the coop to stop the police searches.
(c) Come another time.
(d) Pretend Eva is Marketa's cousin.

2. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?
(a) His tire is flat and can't be replaced.
(b) He learns he has a blown head gasket.
(c) The transmission is no good.
(d) The attendant is not happy about serving him.

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

4. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?
(a) That it was sad they had to move.
(b) They want to live as far away from his mother as possible.
(c) That his parents were so kind to let them stay there, they'd like to return the favor someday.
(d) That it was a nightmare to live there.

5. What is revealed?
(a) The plan to invade a neighboring country.
(b) The corruption of the current regime.
(c) The hypocricy of the dancers.
(d) Kundera's secret position as an editor of the political magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?

2. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?

3. In what is Mirek reveling?

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

5. What year is it when the book opens?

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