View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Angels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mama get embarrassed?
(a) The others think the poem is dumb.
(b) Because Marketa corrects her.
(c) Because Karel corrects her.
(d) The others think the poem is incomprehensible.

2. What happens to Tamina?
(a) She is given a room full of children and no privacy.
(b) She is left alone on the deserted islad.
(c) She is eaten by the animals.
(d) She joins the elderly women.

3. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) Out of sympathy.
(b) Out of the need for money.
(c) To be polite and reply to her mother-in-law's letters.
(d) There is no particular reason.

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

5. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?
(a) By rowing her back to the mainland.
(b) By letting her have her own room.
(c) By raping her.
(d) They do not reward her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marketa dislike her mother-in-law?

2. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

3. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?

4. When did Mama learn the poem?

5. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 293 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample