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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the student recognized?
(a) As an artist.
(b) As a poet.
(c) As a student; that's all.
(d) As a fake.

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

3. Of what is Bibi convinced?
(a) She is going to get to the United States.
(b) She is going to be an actress.
(c) She is going to die young.
(d) She is going to write a novel.

4. How does the student feel as he returns home?
(a) Dejected.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Confused.
(d) Fully restored.

5. Who is Bibi?
(a) Tamina's lover.
(b) A ballerina.
(c) The owner of the cafe.
(d) A regular customer to the cafe.

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

7. How is Tamina's apartment?
(a) Cluttered but clean.
(b) Completely empty.
(c) In shambles.
(d) Neat and organized.

8. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?
(a) Their daughter.
(b) Their son.
(c) All Tamina and her husband's love letters.
(d) Some political propaganda.

9. Where does Tamina work?
(a) As a nanny to one of the big Communist Bosses.
(b) We are not told.
(c) As a waitress at a cafe.
(d) As a secretary to the Minister of Justice.

10. How does the student spend the evening?
(a) Sleeping at a friend's house.
(b) Carousing with friends.
(c) In the arms of a prostitute.
(d) In the presence of great minds.

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

12. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?
(a) A parcel.
(b) Pictures of Tamina's son.
(c) Some of Tamina's clothes.
(d) Pictures of Tamina's daughter.

13. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?
(a) Her memories of the Club meeting.
(b) The book with the inscription.
(c) The discussions she has with the student.
(d) Meeting great minds.

14. Why does Hugo take Tamina to the zoo?
(a) To teach her about drawing birds.
(b) To show her a new exhibit he had planned.
(c) To impress her.
(d) To show her a new monkey species that was found.

15. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) He died in a hospital with no privacy and her new living arrangements mimic this setting.
(b) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.
(c) Neither of them understood the situation.
(d) There is no similarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?

2. What entices Kristyna?

3. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?

4. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?

5. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

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