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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tamina spend her time?
(a) Recreating her husband and their time together.
(b) Taking care of her other children.
(c) Writing letters to get her husband released from prison.
(d) Working.

2. What does Tamina do one day?
(a) Takes over an entire dorm room.
(b) Tries to swim away from the island.
(c) Kills the biggest boy in the group.
(d) Teaches the children how to talk.

3. What do Kristyna and the student decide?
(a) To meet in the city on a particular weekend.
(b) To not see each other again because of her husband.
(c) To travel to Italy.
(d) To marry.

4. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) That's great.
(b) Strange that it is true.
(c) That's strange.
(d) Stranger things have happened.

5. What does Tamina think the ostriches are doing?
(a) Asking for mercy.
(b) Warning her.
(c) Teaching her.
(d) Laughing at her.

6. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
(a) Mirek and Kafta.
(b) No others.
(c) Kafta and Svaboda.
(d) Kundera and Mirek.

7. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Takes over rowing.
(c) Tosses him overboard.
(d) Gives him some candy for energy.

8. Why do the children on Tamina's team begin to win games?
(a) Because of Tamina's size and advanced dextrity.
(b) They are the smartest.
(c) They cheat.
(d) They beat up anyone who might start to win.

9. What do the poets do to the student's view of Kristyna?
(a) Wreck it.
(b) They cast her in a better light.
(c) Undermine her.
(d) Restore it.

10. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?
(a) In Budapest.
(b) In Prague.
(c) In Poland.
(d) At his apartment in the city.

11. Why doesn't the memory of Tamina's husband torment her any longer?
(a) She has had a lobotomy.
(b) She has had a stroke.
(c) She is in a place of no history.
(d) She is in love with Raphael.

12. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?
(a) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.
(b) Kundera's father writes a refutation of Hubl's words.
(c) Kundera's father becomes ill.
(d) Kundera's father defects.

13. What happens to Tamina eventually?
(a) She becomes a mother to all the children.
(b) She has no memory of her prior life.
(c) She is killed by a young man.
(d) She marries Raphael.

14. Where is the boat with the boy who rows?
(a) At the shore of a lake.
(b) Docked on the bay.
(c) Tied to a bridge at the riverbank.
(d) In a field of corn.

15. About what does Husak make a speech?
(a) The importance of commerce to our future.
(b) The importance of children to our future.
(c) The importance of a purity of heart to our future.
(d) The importance of justice to our future

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tamina find within herself?

2. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?

3. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

4. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?

5. Where does Voltaire invite the student?

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