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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 year is it when the book opens?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1918.

2. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Good things.
(c) Bad things.
(d) He marries someone else.

3. What is graphomania?
(a) A way of writing in cuneiform.
(b) The need for the perfect pen.
(c) The obsessive drive to write a book.
(d) The way they illustrate comics.

4. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?
(a) She does not leave on the day Marketa requested.
(b) That the breakup of the marriage is all Marketa's fault.
(c) That she insists that she come to see her grandson.
(d) That she will not stay in the hotel.

5. What is one of the happiest moments of Passer's life?
(a) When he is awarded a lifetime achievement medal.
(b) When Hanna says she will marry him.
(c) The time he spends with Hanna.
(d) When his book is on the best seller's list.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?

2. Why do students dance in a ring?

3. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

4. What finally happens to Tamina?

5. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?

(see the answer key)

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