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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?
(a) To save her social embarrassment.
(b) To save himself.
(c) To save her political embarrassment.
(d) To find a home in a freer country.

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

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

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

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

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

9. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?
(a) Brezhnev's wife.
(b) Kundera's boss.
(c) Khrushchev's wife.
(d) A powerful Communist leader, Breznev.

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

11. What is Zdena's response?
(a) She is broke herself and has no money.
(b) She gave him a recommendation already and he blew it.
(c) Never will she give them to her.
(d) Their child belongs with her mother.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?

2. Why does Mama get embarrassed?

3. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?

4. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?

5. What is Klement Gottwald doing?

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