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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Hubl after his comments?
(a) He defects.
(b) He is made Minister of Justice.
(c) He is jailed six months later.
(d) He is assassinated.

2. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?
(a) Legally.
(b) Illegally.
(c) Pending citizenship.
(d) As a non-citizen.

3. 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) Working.
(d) Taking care of her other children.

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

5. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?
(a) With a friend at a pub.
(b) He is in his apartment waiting for Kristyna.
(c) He is in prison for distributing propaganda against the state.
(d) In class with someone referred to as Voltaire.

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

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

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

9. Why do the police go to Tamina's apartment?
(a) She calls in and her boss can hear a gunshot in the background.
(b) She has been meeting with a politically banned group.
(c) She calls the police because a derelict is bothering her.
(d) She does not show up for work.

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

11. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
(a) Robert.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Randolph.

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

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

14. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?
(a) It is eventually forgotten.
(b) It is solved.
(c) It is expunged from the records.
(d) It is still being actively worked.

15. With whom does Kristyna sometimes have an affair?
(a) A cook.
(b) A physics professor.
(c) An auto mechanic.
(d) A pilot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the student recognized?

2. How does the student spend the evening?

3. What entices Kristyna?

4. What does Tamina try to recreate?

5. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?

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