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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?
(a) He is involved in the political parties of his time and "danced in a ring."
(b) He begins to doubt the efficacy of communism.
(c) He learns he has leukemia.
(d) His wife dies in childbirth.

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

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

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

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

6. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?
(a) The woman he was just speaking to on the phone.
(b) His mama's friend.
(c) His last wife.
(d) No one.

7. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle start to cry?
(a) They are laughed at.
(b) They fall when trying to dance.
(c) They get in the way of some falling debris.
(d) They are kicked.

8. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?
(a) His love letters.
(b) Money.
(c) A recommendation for a job.
(d) Custody of their child.

9. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?
(a) That she insists that she come to see her grandson.
(b) That the breakup of the marriage is all Marketa's fault.
(c) That she will not stay in the hotel.
(d) She does not leave on the day Marketa requested.

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

11. What does Zdena urge Mirek to do?
(a) Make a deal with his political party.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Reconcile with her.
(d) Leave the country.

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

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

14. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?
(a) Marketa's son.
(b) Marketa's sister.
(c) Karel.
(d) Marketa's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?

2. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?

3. What is Mirek being followed?

4. What is happening to Mirek's house when he arrives?

5. What does Eva want?

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