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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 is Mirek being followed?
(a) He stole the car he is driving.
(b) He has bodyguards in another car.
(c) Someone warns the police he is going to kill Zdena.
(d) He is considered an enemy of the state.

2. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?
(a) The person becomes nicer and softer.
(b) The person defects to the West.
(c) The person has Kundera arrested.
(d) The person commits suicide.

3. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) His father.
(b) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His philosophy professor.

4. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) When they need money.
(b) When her mother-in-law's husband dies.
(c) She does not write her mother-in-law.
(d) When her mother-in-law begins to write Marketa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the student settle into litost?

2. What does Tamina find within herself?

3. What does Mama later say about Eva?

4. Where is Bibi going for the summer?

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

(see the answer key)

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