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

3. What happens to Madame Raphael, Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They dance and then rise into the sky like angels.
(c) They go off laughing together.
(d) They are arrested.

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

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

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

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

8. How do Karel and Eva conspire?
(a) To get Marketa to allow his mother to live with them.
(b) To leave Marketa and take Karel and Marketa's life savings.
(c) To get Marketa to think that she wants to leave Karel.
(d) To make it look as though Marketa is the first to meet Eva.

9. What is revealed?
(a) Kundera's secret position as an editor of the political magazine.
(b) The plan to invade a neighboring country.
(c) The hypocricy of the dancers.
(d) The corruption of the current regime.

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

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

12. Why is Kundera asked to leave the ring?
(a) Because he told their secrets.
(b) He does not know why.
(c) For being clumsy.
(d) For saying the wrong thing.

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

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

15. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) There is no particular reason.
(b) Out of the need for money.
(c) Out of sympathy.
(d) To be polite and reply to her mother-in-law's letters.