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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?
(a) The person has Kundera arrested.
(b) The person defects to the West.
(c) The person commits suicide.
(d) The person becomes nicer and softer.

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

4. To what year does the story next flash forward?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1961.

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

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

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

8. What does Mama start to doubt?
(a) Her sanity.
(b) Karel's truthfulness.
(c) Herself and her memories.
(d) Marketa's good will.

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

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

11. What is Klement Gottwald doing?
(a) Stepping out on a balcony to make a speech.
(b) Sliding down a mountain on skis.
(c) Escaping through the mountains.
(d) Crying.

12. What happens to Mirek and his son?
(a) The son is made to join the military and Mirek goes to prison.
(b) Mirek is sentenced to six years, his son gets two years.
(c) They are exiled from the country.
(d) They are given house arrest.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the police find?

3. Who addresses the Czech people?

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

5. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

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