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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. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) With his aunt.
(b) Away.
(c) At camp.
(d) She has no son.

2. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?
(a) His wife dies in childbirth.
(b) He learns he has leukemia.
(c) He is involved in the political parties of his time and "danced in a ring."
(d) He begins to doubt the efficacy of communism.

3. What might the person fired have lost?
(a) A means of making a living.
(b) A prime office location.
(c) A burgeoning career.
(d) Good political connections.

4. What does Zdena urge Mirek to do?
(a) Make a deal with his political party.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Reconcile with her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mirek being followed?

2. What does Karel do on the phone?

3. What does Mama remember when they are all together?

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

5. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

(see the answer key)

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