2. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) To be polite and reply to her mother-in-law's letters.
(b) Out of sympathy.
(c) Out of the need for money.
(d) There is no particular reason.

3. Why do students dance in a ring?
(a) So no one is behind any one else for safety.
(b) It is a figure of speech; they don't actually dance.
(c) For flexibility and exercise.
(d) To celebrate a variety of things.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?
(a) Talk to the director of the coop to stop the police searches.
(b) Come another time.
(c) Pretend Eva is Marketa's cousin.
(d) Stay at the hotel near them.

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

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

12. Why is Mirek driving to see Zdena?
(a) To retrieve some old love letters.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To ask her to marry him.
(d) To give her a present.

13. Who wrote the Parole de femme?
(a) Saint Joan de Arc.
(b) Saint Augustine.
(c) Saint Annie Leclerc.
(d) Julian of Norwich.

14. Where does Mirek arrive?
(a) At Zdena's country estate.
(b) At the border to the Ukraine.
(c) At Zdena's apartment.
(d) At his mother's apartment.

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