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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kristyna to the student?
(a) A potential wife.
(b) A good person with whom to discuss poetry and art.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Like a Band-aid, soothing his ego.

2. Where is Bibi going for the summer?
(a) Poland.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Prague.

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

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

5. What happens to Hubl after his comments?
(a) He is jailed six months later.
(b) He is made Minister of Justice.
(c) He defects.
(d) He is assassinated.

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

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

8. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?
(a) Legally.
(b) Illegally.
(c) As a non-citizen.
(d) Pending citizenship.

9. What do the poets do to the student's view of Kristyna?
(a) Restore it.
(b) Wreck it.
(c) They cast her in a better light.
(d) Undermine her.

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

11. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?
(a) Kundera's father defects.
(b) Kundera's father writes a refutation of Hubl's words.
(c) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.
(d) Kundera's father becomes ill.

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

14. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) Neither of them understood the situation.
(b) He died in a hospital with no privacy and her new living arrangements mimic this setting.
(c) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.
(d) There is no similarity.

15. Why does Hugo take Tamina to the zoo?
(a) To impress her.
(b) To teach her about drawing birds.
(c) To show her a new monkey species that was found.
(d) To show her a new exhibit he had planned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tamina?

2. How is Tamina's apartment?

3. Where is the boat with the boy who rows?

4. What does Tamina find within herself?

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

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