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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zdena urge Mirek to do?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Reconcile with her.
(c) Get a job.
(d) Make a deal with his political party.

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

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

4. What will happen to the record of Clementis' life?
(a) It will be distorted.
(b) It will be made into a movie.
(c) It will be expunged from history.
(d) It will be studied by every school child.

5. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?
(a) That she is much younger than he is.
(b) That she is older than he is.
(c) That she has never told him her age.
(d) That they are the same age.

6. What does Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter elicit?
(a) A more in-depth discussion of laughter.
(b) A slap from Sister Maria who is teaching the class.
(c) A grimace from Madame Raphael.
(d) A hushing noise from another person.

7. What does Kundera have the urge to do?
(a) Escape to another country.
(b) To rape his former boss.
(c) To kidnap his former boss.
(d) To kill his former boss.

8. What do the police find?
(a) A baggie of drugs.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Some illegal weapons.
(d) The letters that Mirek kept between colleagues and friends.

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

10. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?
(a) Have sex together.
(b) Go skiing.
(c) Attend the theater together.
(d) Plan political rallies.

11. What do the members of the ring do?
(a) They suddenly disperse screaming.
(b) They eventually dance their way into the sky and float away, happily.
(c) They drop exhausted to the ground.
(d) They stop and silently go their separate ways.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?

2. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?

3. What happens to Mirek and his son?

4. Who addresses the Czech people?

5. With what does Mirek profess to be entranced as far as Zdena is concerned?

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