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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tamina not doing?
(a) Thinking of her children.
(b) Taking care of herself.
(c) Trying to create a present or future for herself.
(d) Staying in touch with her husband in prison.

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

3. What does the student debate with others?
(a) The might of capitalism to overthrow communism.
(b) The right of Russia to be in Hungary.
(c) The political situation in Prague.
(d) Poetry and philosophical tenets.

4. Where is Bibi going for the summer?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Poland.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Prague.

5. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Fully immersed in his litost.
(b) Full of inspiration.
(c) Feeling really great.
(d) Feeling rejected.

6. What entices Kristyna?
(a) The physical beauty of the student.
(b) Philosophy and higher thinking.
(c) The love of acting.
(d) The promise of wealth.

7. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?
(a) If she wants to go somewhere where there is no weight.
(b) If she wants to go to the movies with him.
(c) If she is ready for heaven.
(d) Why she is working at a capitalist place.

8. What does Tamina find within herself?
(a) A treasured silence.
(b) Resilience.
(c) A tendency to wander mentally.
(d) Anger like she has never known.

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

10. What finally happens to Tamina?
(a) She drowns.
(b) She is hung by the children who keep losing to her team.
(c) She becomes the oldest of the elderly woman there.
(d) She dies in her sleep naturally.

11. What is graphomania?
(a) A way of writing in cuneiform.
(b) The way they illustrate comics.
(c) The need for the perfect pen.
(d) The obsessive drive to write a book.

12. What happens to Tamina?
(a) She is eaten by the animals.
(b) She joins the elderly women.
(c) She is given a room full of children and no privacy.
(d) She is left alone on the deserted islad.

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

14. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?
(a) It is full of strange animals.
(b) It is full of lush vegetation and has a few elderly women.
(c) It is full of children.
(d) It is deserted.

15. What does Tamina try to recreate?
(a) The notebooks filled with their past and love letters or even his face.
(b) A safe home for the children.
(c) The scene where her husband is arrested.
(d) The last day of her husband's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Tamina?

2. Why do the police go to Tamina's apartment?

3. Why does the student settle into litost?

4. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?

5. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?

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