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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Tamina think the ostriches are doing?
(a) Teaching her.
(b) Warning her.
(c) Laughing at her.
(d) Asking for mercy.

4. What does Husak desire?
(a) To defect to Great Britain.
(b) To take over the country.
(c) To imprison Mirek.
(d) To kill Kundera.

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

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

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

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

9. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) Strange that it is true.
(b) That's strange.
(c) That's great.
(d) Stranger things have happened.

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

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

12. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?
(a) It is still being actively worked.
(b) It is expunged from the records.
(c) It is solved.
(d) It is eventually forgotten.

13. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
(a) Gives him some candy for energy.
(b) Takes over rowing.
(c) Tosses him overboard.
(d) Nothing.

14. How does the student feel as he returns home?
(a) Inferior.
(b) Dejected.
(c) Confused.
(d) Fully restored.

15. To what does the student manipulate Kristyna into agreeing?
(a) To return that same day back to her home.
(b) To getting her own motel room.
(c) To his going to the Writer's Club meeting.
(d) To go to bed with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tamina work?

2. What turns off the student about Kristyna when she arrives?

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

4. Why does the student settle into litost?

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

(see the answer keys)

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