2. What does litost mean?
(a) A state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
(b) A toast to misery.
(c) The least weight of all.
(d) A toast to life.

3. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?
(a) She does not interrupt others with stories about herself.
(b) She always seems to understand what someone is saying.
(c) She nods constantly.
(d) She looks people straight in the eye.

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

5. 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.

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

7. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?
(a) Goes back on his promise to go to Prague.
(b) Tells her he is leaving the country.
(c) Asks her if she will marry him.
(d) Tells her he is married.

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

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 does not show up for work.
(c) She has been meeting with a politically banned group.
(d) She calls the police because a derelict is bothering her.

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

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

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

13. Why does the student settle into litost?
(a) Because of his missed opportunity.
(b) To illustrate his despondent tendencies.
(c) To write better poetry.
(d) Because he tends to be melodramatic.

14. What does Husak desire?
(a) To take over the country.
(b) To imprison Mirek.
(c) To kill Kundera.
(d) To defect to Great Britain.

15. 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.