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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) A parcel.
(d) Pictures of Tamina's son.

7. Where does Voltaire invite the student?
(a) To hear a poetry reading at a pub.
(b) A meeting of the Writer's Club.
(c) To his home for dinner.
(d) To watch a reenactment of independence day.

8. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?
(a) By erasing their memory of their previous culture.
(b) By indoctrinating their children.
(c) By killing them one by one.
(d) He is not sure how to do it, just that it is necessary.

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

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

11. 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 defects.
(c) Kundera's father becomes ill.
(d) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.

12. What happens to Tamina eventually?
(a) She becomes a mother to all the children.
(b) She is killed by a young man.
(c) She marries Raphael.
(d) She has no memory of her prior life.

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

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

15. What does Kristyna ask the student to get her?
(a) A new writing tablet.
(b) Two more books by Kant.
(c) An inscription written by the poet they call Goethe in her book.
(d) A book on philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

2. What is Tamina not doing?

3. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?

4. Who is Tamina?

5. What turns off the student about Kristyna when she arrives?

(see the answer keys)

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