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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 does Zdena urge Mirek to do?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Make a deal with his political party.
(c) Reconcile with her.
(d) Get a job.

2. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?
(a) To make him look ridiculous.
(b) To make him look like Marketa.
(c) His head is bare and it is very cold.
(d) To conceal who he is.

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

4. What does Eva want?
(a) Male attention and satisfaction.
(b) To explore her sexuality.
(c) She is not sure.
(d) A feeling of family.

5. How do Karel and Eva conspire?
(a) To get Marketa to allow his mother to live with them.
(b) To get Marketa to think that she wants to leave Karel.
(c) To make it look as though Marketa is the first to meet Eva.
(d) To leave Marketa and take Karel and Marketa's life savings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kundera feel about the dancing?

2. What do the members of the ring do?

3. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

4. What happens to Mirek when he and Zdena break up?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is upsetting about Mama's visit and why doesn't Marketa do anything about it?

2. What is remembered about Clementis?

3. What does Kundera say about laughter in response to Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter?

4. How does Kundera's loss of his friends in the dancing circle affect him later?

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

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

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

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

9. How is the fur hat symbolic?

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

(see the answer keys)

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