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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It gives her the perspective to be able to forgive the mother-in-law.
(c) It makes her more determined to steer clear of her mother-in-law.
(d) It softens Marketa's perspective on her mother-in-law.

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

3. Who is waiting for Mirek when he arrives back home?
(a) The police.
(b) His mother.
(c) His best friend.
(d) Zdena.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother and sister.
(c) His boss.
(d) His other mistresses and friends.

13. Who does Kundera watch in the ring?
(a) Karel.
(b) Mirek.
(c) Eluard.
(d) Eva.

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

15. What is Mirek being followed?
(a) He is considered an enemy of the state.
(b) Someone warns the police he is going to kill Zdena.
(c) He has bodyguards in another car.
(d) He stole the car he is driving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?

2. In what is Mirek reveling?

3. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?

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

5. What does Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter elicit?

(see the answer keys)

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