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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?
(a) He decides to go and jump off a high bridge.
(b) He calls his mother on his cell phone.
(c) He temporarily loses the men following him in the car.
(d) He goes to borrow a friend's gun.

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

3. Who is Tamina?
(a) She is one of the two or three fictionalized characters that Kundera assumes are born every second on earth.
(b) She is a secondary character and a cousin to Kundera.
(c) We are never told anything about her.
(d) She is Kundera's second wife.

4. How does the student spend the evening?
(a) Carousing with friends.
(b) In the presence of great minds.
(c) Sleeping at a friend's house.
(d) In the arms of a prostitute.

5. What do the police find?
(a) Some illegal weapons.
(b) A baggie of drugs.
(c) The letters that Mirek kept between colleagues and friends.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mirek ashamed of Zdena?

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

3. Where does Tamina work?

4. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?

5. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?

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