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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She is broke herself and has no money.
(d) Their child belongs with her mother.

2. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?
(a) He does not trust it.
(b) He thinks it is bad advice.
(c) He thinks she is right and trusts her to tell him the truth.
(d) He has no opinion until he checks things out.

3. After leaving the ring, what does Kundera do?
(a) He defects to Britian.
(b) He moves to Budapest.
(c) He wanders the streets outside of the rings of celebrants.
(d) He moves to the USSR.

4. How does Kundera feel about the dancing?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is envious.
(c) He thinks they are silly.
(d) He is despondent.

5. What does Mama forget?
(a) To cook the pasta.
(b) The last line of the poem.
(c) To bring her toothbrush.
(d) To pack her pajamas.

6. What is the subject of the poem?
(a) Hope.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Grief.

7. Where does Kundera meet his former boss?
(a) In the underground tunnels near the square.
(b) At the fish market.
(c) At a secret apartment.
(d) At the wharf.

8. Why is Mirek driving to see Zdena?
(a) To give her a present.
(b) To ask her to marry him.
(c) To retrieve some old love letters.
(d) To kill her.

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

10. What is Klement Gottwald doing?
(a) Sliding down a mountain on skis.
(b) Escaping through the mountains.
(c) Crying.
(d) Stepping out on a balcony to make a speech.

11. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?
(a) To conceal who he is.
(b) To make him look like Marketa.
(c) To make him look ridiculous.
(d) His head is bare and it is very cold.

12. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) To believe Eva is in love with her.
(b) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.
(c) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.
(d) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.

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

14. What does Marketa not know about Eva and Karel?
(a) That they know each other before Marketa meets Eva.
(b) That they plan to eventually marry.
(c) That they are both in love with a third woman.
(d) That Eva wants Karel to encourage Marketa to leave him for her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police find?

2. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?

3. To what year does the story next flash forward?

4. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?

5. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?

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