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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?
(a) He decides to go and jump off a high bridge.
(b) He calls his mother on his cell phone.
(c) He temporarily loses the men following him in the car.
(d) He goes to borrow a friend's gun.

6. When did Mama learn the poem?
(a) In high school.
(b) When she is a young girl.
(c) In college.
(d) She does not remember.

7. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?
(a) They want to live as far away from his mother as possible.
(b) That it was sad they had to move.
(c) That his parents were so kind to let them stay there, they'd like to return the favor someday.
(d) That it was a nightmare to live there.

8. With what does Mirek profess to be entranced as far as Zdena is concerned?
(a) Her wealth.
(b) Her artistic abilities.
(c) Her mind.
(d) Her political connections.

9. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) His philosophy professor.
(b) His father.
(c) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.
(d) His best friend.

10. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?
(a) His last wife.
(b) The woman he was just speaking to on the phone.
(c) No one.
(d) His mama's friend.

11. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) Two cousins from Prague.
(b) Two students in Madame Raphael's class.
(c) Two women in Madame Raphael's support group.
(d) Two co-conspirators in Madame Raphael's political cell.

12. What is happening to Mirek's house when he arrives?
(a) The police are searching it.
(b) It is on fire.
(c) It is surrounded by the militia.
(d) It is being remodeled.

13. What is the tone of the play RHINOCEROS?
(a) Intense sexuality.
(b) Farcical.
(c) Mockery and playfulness.
(d) Religious fervor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?

2. What year is it when the book opens?

3. Why does Marketa not feel threatened by Eva?

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

5. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?

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