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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 Mama start to doubt?
(a) Her sanity.
(b) Karel's truthfulness.
(c) Marketa's good will.
(d) Herself and her memories.

2. 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 eventually dance their way into the sky and float away, happily.
(d) They suddenly disperse screaming.

3. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?
(a) They want to live as far away from his mother as possible.
(b) That his parents were so kind to let them stay there, they'd like to return the favor someday.
(c) That it was sad they had to move.
(d) That it was a nightmare to live there.

4. What does Mama forget?
(a) The last line of the poem.
(b) To pack her pajamas.
(c) To cook the pasta.
(d) To bring her toothbrush.

5. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) To be polite and reply to her mother-in-law's letters.
(b) Out of sympathy.
(c) Out of the need for money.
(d) There is no particular reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Eva, Karel and Marketa doing when Mama is in her room?

2. For what does Mirek ask Zdena?

3. What does Mama remember when they are all together?

4. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?

5. Where does Mirek arrive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Marketa asks Eva to pretend she is Marketa's cousin?

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

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

6. What happens that embarrasses Mama?

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

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

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

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

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