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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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) Because of Tamina's size and advanced dextrity.
(d) They are the smartest.

4. 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.

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

6. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?
(a) It is deserted.
(b) It is full of strange animals.
(c) It is full of children.
(d) It is full of lush vegetation and has a few elderly women.

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

8. 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.

9. 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) There has to be a lot of left-handed people.
(c) The people in the society must have an elevated sense of well-being.
(d) The people must be angry and want change.

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

11. 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) A book on philosophy.
(d) Two more books by Kant.

12. Who are two people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
(a) Kafta and Mirek.
(b) Kundera and Clementis.
(c) Mirek and Zdena.
(d) Clementis and Gottwald.

13. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?
(a) Her memories of the Club meeting.
(b) The book with the inscription.
(c) The discussions she has with the student.
(d) Meeting great minds.

14. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?
(a) Why she is working at a capitalist place.
(b) If she wants to go somewhere where there is no weight.
(c) If she wants to go to the movies with him.
(d) If she is ready for heaven.

15. What does Tamina find within herself?
(a) A tendency to wander mentally.
(b) A treasured silence.
(c) Anger like she has never known.
(d) Resilience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

2. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?

3. Why does the student settle into litost?

4. With whom does Kristyna sometimes have an affair?

5. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?

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