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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What will happen to the record of Clementis' life?
(a) It will be expunged from history.
(b) It will be made into a movie.
(c) It will be studied by every school child.
(d) It will be distorted.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter elicit?

2. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?

3. What does litost mean?

4. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

5. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?

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