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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the narrator describe Tamina?
(a) As a empty soul with no life.
(b) As a lost soul whose shape is set in the past.
(c) As a empty husk.
(d) As on a raft looking back.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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