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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Litost.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?
(a) In Budapest.
(b) In Poland.
(c) In Prague.
(d) At his apartment in the city.

2. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Fully immersed in his litost.
(b) Feeling really great.
(c) Full of inspiration.
(d) Feeling rejected.

3. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?
(a) Kundera's boss.
(b) A powerful Communist leader, Breznev.
(c) Brezhnev's wife.
(d) Khrushchev's wife.

4. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?
(a) Tells her he is married.
(b) Goes back on his promise to go to Prague.
(c) Asks her if she will marry him.
(d) Tells her he is leaving the country.

5. Where does Tamina work?
(a) As a waitress at a cafe.
(b) As a secretary to the Minister of Justice.
(c) As a nanny to one of the big Communist Bosses.
(d) We are not told.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives while the mother-in-law is still there?

2. To what year does the story next flash forward?

3. What year is it when the book opens?

4. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?

5. What does Mama start to doubt?

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