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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote the Parole de femme?
(a) Julian of Norwich.
(b) Saint Augustine.
(c) Saint Joan de Arc.
(d) Saint Annie Leclerc.
2. What does Mama start to doubt?
(a) Her sanity.
(b) Herself and her memories.
(c) Karel's truthfulness.
(d) Marketa's good will.
3. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?
(a) To make him look like Marketa.
(b) To conceal who he is.
(c) To make him look ridiculous.
(d) His head is bare and it is very cold.
4. What does Mama remember when they are all together?
(a) That Marketa had asked her to leave on Sunday.
(b) A poem she once recited.
(c) That Eva once visited Mama's house with Karel.
(d) Where she has met Eva before.
5. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?
(a) Madame Raphael's political cell.
(b) No one.
(c) Madame Raphael's support group.
(d) Madame Raphael's class.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do Michelle and Gabrielle break out in laughter?
2. In what is Mirek reveling?
3. What do the police find?
4. What is the subject of the poem?
5. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Marketa contemplate doing with Eva near the end of the chapter?
2. What is the difference between how Mama views memory versus how Karel and Marketa do?
3. Why do you think Kundera agrees to write an astrology column?
4. Why does Kundera quit dancing and what does he imagine about the dancing? Of what do you think his imagining about the dancing is symbolic?
5. What does this Kundera say about our collective past?
6. Why do you think Marketa asks Eva to pretend she is Marketa's cousin?
7. What is upsetting about Mama's visit and why doesn't Marketa do anything about it?
8. What is the meaning of laughter in part 3?
9. What are Michelle and Gabrielle doing and what is their response?
10. What is Zdena response to Mirek's request for his letters and do you think she is being fair to Mirek?
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