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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mama later say about Eva?
(a) That she looks like a former friend of Mama's.
(b) That she looks like a hussy.
(c) That she is kind.
(d) That she is smart.

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

4. Who arrives while the mother-in-law is still there?
(a) The police.
(b) The group of political conspirators.
(c) Marketa's son.
(d) Eva.

5. Why is Mirek ashamed of Zdena?
(a) She is ugly.
(b) She has bad table manners.
(c) She is uneducated.
(d) She has a loud, grating voice.

6. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) Two students in Madame Raphael's class.
(b) Two cousins from Prague.
(c) Two women in Madame Raphael's support group.
(d) Two co-conspirators in Madame Raphael's political cell.

7. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?
(a) That she has never told him her age.
(b) That she is much younger than he is.
(c) That she is older than he is.
(d) That they are the same age.

8. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His philosophy professor.
(c) His father.
(d) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.

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

10. What is Zdena's response?
(a) Never will she give them to her.
(b) Their child belongs with her mother.
(c) She is broke herself and has no money.
(d) She gave him a recommendation already and he blew it.

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

12. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) She has no son.
(b) Away.
(c) With his aunt.
(d) At camp.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Parole de femme?

2. To what year does the story next flash forward?

3. Who addresses the Czech people?

4. What do the police find?

5. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?

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