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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 Marketa not feel threatened by Eva?
(a) Because Eva is not looking for a relationship.
(b) Because Eva freely shares all things.
(c) Because Eva loves Marketa.
(d) Because Eva is not good looking.

2. What does litost mean?
(a) A toast to life.
(b) A toast to misery.
(c) The least weight of all.
(d) A state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.

3. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?
(a) A parcel.
(b) Pictures of Tamina's son.
(c) Some of Tamina's clothes.
(d) Pictures of Tamina's daughter.

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

5. What is Kundera hired to write for a political magazine?
(a) A vitrolic response to Voice of America.
(b) The truth.
(c) A political pundit column.
(d) An astrology column.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of the play RHINOCEROS?

2. Why does the student settle into litost?

3. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?

4. What might the person fired have lost?

5. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?

(see the answer key)

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