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

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

3. Why does Mama get embarrassed?
(a) Because Marketa corrects her.
(b) The others think the poem is incomprehensible.
(c) Because Karel corrects her.
(d) The others think the poem is dumb.

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

5. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) She does not write her mother-in-law.
(b) When they need money.
(c) When her mother-in-law's husband dies.
(d) When her mother-in-law begins to write Marketa.

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

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

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

9. What does Karel do on the phone?
(a) Talk to his publisher.
(b) Talk to Eva's husband.
(c) Arrange another sexual liaison.
(d) Call a nursing home for his mother.

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

11. 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.

12. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle break out in laughter?
(a) They can't imagine Madame Raphael in bed with her husband.
(b) They figure out the personal meaning of the play.
(c) Michelle just told Gabrielle a hilarious joke.
(d) They think the political ideas espoused in the cell are sometimes ridiculous.

13. What does Mama later say about Eva?
(a) That she is smart.
(b) That she looks like a former friend of Mama's.
(c) That she looks like a hussy.
(d) That she is kind.

14. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?
(a) Invites her mother-in-law to visit.
(b) Goes to visit her mother-in-law.
(c) Goes to church for the first time in many years.
(d) Goes to Paris.

15. Why do students dance in a ring?
(a) So no one is behind any one else for safety.
(b) For flexibility and exercise.
(c) To celebrate a variety of things.
(d) It is a figure of speech; they don't actually dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama start to doubt?

2. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?

3. After leaving the ring, what does Kundera do?

4. Who is waiting for Mirek when he arrives back home?

5. Who is fired because of Kundera?

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