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

2. What is revealed?
(a) The plan to invade a neighboring country.
(b) The hypocricy of the dancers.
(c) Kundera's secret position as an editor of the political magazine.
(d) The corruption of the current regime.

3. What do the members of the ring do?
(a) They drop exhausted to the ground.
(b) They suddenly disperse screaming.
(c) They eventually dance their way into the sky and float away, happily.
(d) They stop and silently go their separate ways.

4. What do Kristyna and the student decide?
(a) To marry.
(b) To not see each other again because of her husband.
(c) To meet in the city on a particular weekend.
(d) To travel to Italy.

5. What is Kristyna to the student?
(a) A good person with whom to discuss poetry and art.
(b) Like a Band-aid, soothing his ego.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A potential wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?

2. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

3. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

4. What is Zdena's response?

5. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?

(see the answer key)

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