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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 provincial appearance.
(d) Her loud voice.

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

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

4. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?
(a) A baby picture.
(b) A picture of him when he is 12.
(c) She has no pictures of him.
(d) His passport photo.

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

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

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

8. What does Tamina try to recreate?
(a) The scene where her husband is arrested.
(b) A safe home for the children.
(c) The notebooks filled with their past and love letters or even his face.
(d) The last day of her husband's life.

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

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

11. 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 deserted.
(d) It is full of children.

12. How does the narrator describe Tamina?
(a) As a empty soul with no life.
(b) As a empty husk.
(c) As a lost soul whose shape is set in the past.
(d) As on a raft looking back.

13. What happens when Tamina and her husband are abroad?
(a) Her husband becomes ill and dies.
(b) Her husband drowns.
(c) Her husband is arrested and is now in prison.
(d) Tamina leaves her husband.

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

15. Who does Kristyna meet one day?
(a) A student on vacation.
(b) Her biological mother.
(c) Her sister who had been kidnapped years ago.
(d) A man who offers her a chance to act on stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?

2. What do Kristyna and the student decide?

3. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?

4. What does the student debate with others?

5. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?

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