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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 do the police find?
(a) Some illegal weapons.
(b) A baggie of drugs.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The letters that Mirek kept between colleagues and friends.

2. After leaving the ring, what does Kundera do?
(a) He defects to Britian.
(b) He wanders the streets outside of the rings of celebrants.
(c) He moves to Budapest.
(d) He moves to the USSR.

3. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?
(a) Good things.
(b) He marries someone else.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bad things.

4. What does Kundera have the urge to do?
(a) Escape to another country.
(b) To kidnap his former boss.
(c) To rape his former boss.
(d) To kill his former boss.

5. What do the members of the ring do?
(a) They drop exhausted to the ground.
(b) They stop and silently go their separate ways.
(c) They suddenly disperse screaming.
(d) They eventually dance their way into the sky and float away, happily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?

2. Who addresses the Czech people?

3. Why does Zdena urge Mirek to take this action?

4. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?

5. What does Eva want?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this Kundera say about our collective past?

2. Who is Mirek going to visit and why?

3. What does Mirek think of Zdena when they first meet and then become lovers?

4. What is it that Marketa does not know about Eva and do you think Marketa would care at this point if she learned this?

5. What are Michelle and Gabrielle doing and what is their response?

6. What is Zdena response to Mirek's request for his letters and do you think she is being fair to Mirek?

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

8. What is the difference between how Mama views memory versus how Karel and Marketa do?

9. Where does Mirek stop and why is that problematic?

10. How does Marketa meet Eva and how does the relationship evolve to include Karel?

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