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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. What is the tone of the play RHINOCEROS?
(a) Farcical.
(b) Mockery and playfulness.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) Intense sexuality.

2. What might the person fired have lost?
(a) Good political connections.
(b) A means of making a living.
(c) A prime office location.
(d) A burgeoning career.

3. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) To believe Eva is in love with her.
(b) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.
(c) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.
(d) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.

4. What is Klement Gottwald doing?
(a) Crying.
(b) Sliding down a mountain on skis.
(c) Stepping out on a balcony to make a speech.
(d) Escaping through the mountains.

5. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) His philosophy professor.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His father.
(d) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eva want?

2. What year is it when the book opens?

3. Why do students dance in a ring?

4. To whom does Mirek lie about the reasons he becomes involved with Zdena?

5. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mirek arrives back home and how is this somewhat ironic?

2. What happens that embarrasses Mama?

3. How does Marketa's feelings towards her mother-in-law change over time?

4. Why does Mirek want his old love letters back from Zdena and do you think his goal is possible?

5. How would the relationship between Marketa and Karel change if Marketa cheats on him with Eva and her husband?

6. What does Marketa contemplate doing with Eva near the end of the chapter?

7. How is the fur hat symbolic?

8. What do Kundera and other students do around 1948 and why? Do you think Kundera is speaking metaphorically or actuality.

9. What happens when Karel receives a phone call and how is the outcome ironic?

10. Who is Mirek going to visit and why?

(see the answer keys)

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