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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Tamina after she sleeps with Hugo?
(a) She regains her voice and words.
(b) She tells him to leave her home and never come back.
(c) She cries.
(d) She is silent permanently.

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

3. With what does Mirek profess to be entranced as far as Zdena is concerned?
(a) Her political connections.
(b) Her artistic abilities.
(c) Her mind.
(d) Her wealth.

4. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?
(a) She is confident and is going places.
(b) He thought she was terribly witty.
(c) His mother and her mother are close friends.
(d) He does not have the confidence to approach a beautiful woman.

5. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It makes her more determined to steer clear of her mother-in-law.
(c) It gives her the perspective to be able to forgive the mother-in-law.
(d) It softens Marketa's perspective on her mother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the members of the ring do?

2. What happens to Hubl after his comments?

3. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?

4. How does Tamina spend her time?

5. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?

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