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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Mama learn the poem?
(a) She does not remember.
(b) When she is a young girl.
(c) In high school.
(d) In college.

2. What does Karel do on the phone?
(a) Arrange another sexual liaison.
(b) Talk to Eva's husband.
(c) Talk to his publisher.
(d) Call a nursing home for his mother.

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

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

5. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) There is no similarity.
(b) Neither of them understood the situation.
(c) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.
(d) He died in a hospital with no privacy and her new living arrangements mimic this setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Kristyna sometimes have an affair?

2. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?

3. What happens to Tamina?

4. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?

5. How does the student feel as he returns home?

(see the answer key)

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