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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle start to cry?
(a) They are kicked.
(b) They are laughed at.
(c) They get in the way of some falling debris.
(d) They fall when trying to dance.

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

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

5. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?
(a) The transmission is no good.
(b) His tire is flat and can't be replaced.
(c) He learns he has a blown head gasket.
(d) The attendant is not happy about serving him.

6. What is Mirek being followed?
(a) He is considered an enemy of the state.
(b) He stole the car he is driving.
(c) Someone warns the police he is going to kill Zdena.
(d) He has bodyguards in another car.

7. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?
(a) Madame Raphael's class.
(b) Madame Raphael's political cell.
(c) Madame Raphael's support group.
(d) No one.

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

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

10. What does Eva want?
(a) A feeling of family.
(b) To explore her sexuality.
(c) Male attention and satisfaction.
(d) She is not sure.

11. What is Kundera hired to write for a political magazine?
(a) The truth.
(b) A political pundit column.
(c) An astrology column.
(d) A vitrolic response to Voice of America.

12. Where does Eva meet Marketa?
(a) At a political rally.
(b) At a ski resort.
(c) In a spa.
(d) At college.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What might the person fired have lost?

2. In what is Mirek reveling?

3. Why do students dance in a ring?

4. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?

5. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?

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