2. How does Mirek feel about Zdena's advice?
(a) He thinks she is right and trusts her to tell him the truth.
(b) He thinks it is bad advice.
(c) He has no opinion until he checks things out.
(d) He does not trust it.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?
(a) They are instantly friends.
(b) They feel competitive with each other.
(c) They think the other one is too radical.
(d) They don't think they like each other.

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

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

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

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

13. 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 given house arrest.
(d) They are exiled from the country.

14. 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) To celebrate a variety of things.
(d) For flexibility and exercise.

15. Who wrote RHINOCEROS?
(a) Lillian Helmet.
(b) Eugene Ionesco.
(c) William Tennessee.
(d) Eugene O'Neill.