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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Marketa dislike her mother-in-law?
(a) When her mother-in-law used to try to control how the grandchildren were raised.
(b) Never.
(c) When Marketa and Karel lived with his parents.
(d) When the mother-in-law lived with them after her husband dies.

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

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

4. What might the person fired have lost?
(a) A burgeoning career.
(b) Good political connections.
(c) A prime office location.
(d) A means of making a living.

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

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

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

8. What will happen to the record of Clementis' life?
(a) It will be distorted.
(b) It will be studied by every school child.
(c) It will be expunged from history.
(d) It will be made into a movie.

9. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?
(a) The attendant is not happy about serving him.
(b) He learns he has a blown head gasket.
(c) The transmission is no good.
(d) His tire is flat and can't be replaced.

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

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

12. Where does Kundera meet his former boss?
(a) In the underground tunnels near the square.
(b) At a secret apartment.
(c) At the wharf.
(d) At the fish market.

13. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.
(b) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.
(c) To believe Eva is in love with her.
(d) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.

14. 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) There is no particular reason.
(d) Out of the need for money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed?

2. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?

3. What do the members of the ring do?

4. What is the subject of the poem?

5. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?

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