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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 does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(b) That Karel and she are divorcing.
(c) That she is not welcome to visit them.
(d) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.

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

3. How do Karel and Eva conspire?
(a) To make it look as though Marketa is the first to meet Eva.
(b) To get Marketa to allow his mother to live with them.
(c) To get Marketa to think that she wants to leave Karel.
(d) To leave Marketa and take Karel and Marketa's life savings.

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

5. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?
(a) Marketa's son.
(b) Karel.
(c) Marketa's sister.
(d) Marketa's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the student and Kristyna consummate their relationship?

2. What entices Kristyna?

3. How does Hanna treat Passer?

4. What happens to Tamina eventually?

5. What language is the word litost?

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