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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tamina do one day?
(a) Teaches the children how to talk.
(b) Takes over an entire dorm room.
(c) Tries to swim away from the island.
(d) Kills the biggest boy in the group.

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

3. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?
(a) The people in the society must have an elevated sense of well-being.
(b) The people must be angry and want change.
(c) The people must be oppressed so they are motivated to speak out.
(d) There has to be a lot of left-handed people.

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

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

6. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?
(a) Takes her children out of the country.
(b) Returns to Prague.
(c) Goes to plead for his release.
(d) Swallows a bottle of prescription pills and swims out into the sea.

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

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

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

10. How does the student spend the evening?
(a) Sleeping at a friend's house.
(b) In the arms of a prostitute.
(c) In the presence of great minds.
(d) Carousing with friends.

11. What turns off the student about Kristyna when she arrives?
(a) Her obvious hero worship of him.
(b) Nothing; he is delighted with her.
(c) Her loud voice.
(d) Her provincial appearance.

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

13. 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.

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

15. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?
(a) Tell each other all about her life over the past twenty years.
(b) Argues about Kristyna moving to London.
(c) Get to know each other.
(d) Have an emotional affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Hubl after his comments?

2. What language is the word litost?

3. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?

4. Who does Kristyna meet one day?

5. What happens to Tamina?

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