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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is happening to Mirek's house when he arrives?
(a) It is surrounded by the militia.
(b) It is on fire.
(c) The police are searching it.
(d) It is being remodeled.

7. 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.

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

9. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?
(a) He learns he has leukemia.
(b) His wife dies in childbirth.
(c) He begins to doubt the efficacy of communism.
(d) He is involved in the political parties of his time and "danced in a ring."

10. 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.

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

12. What does Eva want?
(a) A feeling of family.
(b) Male attention and satisfaction.
(c) She is not sure.
(d) To explore her sexuality.

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

14. What year is it when the book opens?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1968.

15. What does Marketa not know about Eva and Karel?
(a) That they are both in love with a third woman.
(b) That Eva wants Karel to encourage Marketa to leave him for her.
(c) That they know each other before Marketa meets Eva.
(d) That they plan to eventually marry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Kundera asked to leave the ring?

3. What does Kundera have the urge to do?

4. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?

5. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?

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