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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?
(a) He is in his apartment waiting for Kristyna.
(b) With a friend at a pub.
(c) In class with someone referred to as Voltaire.
(d) He is in prison for distributing propaganda against the state.

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

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

4. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
(a) Robert.
(b) Randolph.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Gabriel.

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

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

7. What is Tamina not doing?
(a) Thinking of her children.
(b) Staying in touch with her husband in prison.
(c) Taking care of herself.
(d) Trying to create a present or future for herself.

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

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

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

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

12. What finally happens to Tamina?
(a) She is hung by the children who keep losing to her team.
(b) She dies in her sleep naturally.
(c) She becomes the oldest of the elderly woman there.
(d) She drowns.

13. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?
(a) By raping her.
(b) They do not reward her.
(c) By rowing her back to the mainland.
(d) By letting her have her own room.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What entices Kristyna?

2. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?

3. Who is Bibi?

4. How is the student recognized?

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

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