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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is graphomania?
(a) The way they illustrate comics.
(b) The obsessive drive to write a book.
(c) A way of writing in cuneiform.
(d) The need for the perfect pen.

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

4. Why don't the student and Kristyna consummate their relationship?
(a) Because Kristyna is married.
(b) A lack of trust.
(c) Miscommunication.
(d) Because the student changes his mind again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?

2. What happens to Hubl after his comments?

3. What language is the word litost?

4. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?

5. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?

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