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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the student settle into litost?
(a) To write better poetry.
(b) Because he tends to be melodramatic.
(c) Because of his missed opportunity.
(d) To illustrate his despondent tendencies.

2. What happens to Mirek and his son?
(a) They are given house arrest.
(b) They are exiled from the country.
(c) Mirek is sentenced to six years, his son gets two years.
(d) The son is made to join the military and Mirek goes to prison.

3. Who does Kristyna meet one day?
(a) Her biological mother.
(b) A man who offers her a chance to act on stage.
(c) A student on vacation.
(d) Her sister who had been kidnapped years ago.

4. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(b) That Karel and she are divorcing.
(c) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.
(d) That she is not welcome to visit them.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?

3. What does Zdena urge Mirek to do?

4. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?

5. What do the police find?

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