2. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?
(a) To find a home in a freer country.
(b) To save her political embarrassment.
(c) To save her social embarrassment.
(d) To save himself.

3. What will Clementis later be considered?
(a) A traitor.
(b) A crackpot.
(c) A hero.
(d) A dictator.

4. What does Mama remember when they are all together?
(a) That Marketa had asked her to leave on Sunday.
(b) A poem she once recited.
(c) Where she has met Eva before.
(d) That Eva once visited Mama's house with Karel.

5. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?
(a) Custody of their child.
(b) His love letters.
(c) A recommendation for a job.
(d) Money.

6. What might the person fired have lost?
(a) Good political connections.
(b) A means of making a living.
(c) A burgeoning career.
(d) A prime office location.

7. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?
(a) His boss.
(b) His brother and sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His other mistresses and friends.

8. What is Zdena's response?
(a) She gave him a recommendation already and he blew it.
(b) Never will she give them to her.
(c) Their child belongs with her mother.
(d) She is broke herself and has no money.

9. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?
(a) The person has Kundera arrested.
(b) The person defects to the West.
(c) The person commits suicide.
(d) The person becomes nicer and softer.

10. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) With his aunt.
(b) Away.
(c) She has no son.
(d) At camp.

11. What happens to Mirek and his son?
(a) The son is made to join the military and Mirek goes to prison.
(b) They are exiled from the country.
(c) They are given house arrest.
(d) Mirek is sentenced to six years, his son gets two years.

12. Why is Mirek ashamed of Zdena?
(a) She has a loud, grating voice.
(b) She is ugly.
(c) She is uneducated.
(d) She has bad table manners.

13. Who addresses the Czech people?
(a) Klement Gottwald.
(b) Marketa.
(c) Zedena.
(d) Mirek.

14. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?
(a) Stay at the hotel near them.
(b) Talk to the director of the coop to stop the police searches.
(c) Come another time.
(d) Pretend Eva is Marketa's cousin.

15. When did Marketa dislike her mother-in-law?
(a) Never.
(b) When her mother-in-law used to try to control how the grandchildren were raised.
(c) When the mother-in-law lived with them after her husband dies.
(d) When Marketa and Karel lived with his parents.