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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 are Eva, Karel and Marketa doing when Mama is in her room?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Singing karaoke.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Shooting darts.

2. To whose home does Jan go?
(a) Zdena.
(b) Hanna.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Mirek.

3. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) That's strange.
(b) Stranger things have happened.
(c) That's great.
(d) Strange that it is true.

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

5. Where does Kundera remember a number of historical events happening?
(a) Russia and Bohemia.
(b) Bohemia and Ukraine.
(c) Czech Republic and Ukraine.
(d) Bohemia and the Czech Republic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Husak desire?

3. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

4. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

5. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

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