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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 will happen to the record of Clementis' life?
(a) It will be distorted.
(b) It will be studied by every school child.
(c) It will be made into a movie.
(d) It will be expunged from history.

2. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?
(a) That she can stay in a motel near their apartment.
(b) That Karel and she are divorcing.
(c) That she has to leave on Sunday morning.
(d) That she is not welcome to visit them.

3. What is the subject of the poem?
(a) Politics.
(b) Grief.
(c) Religion.
(d) Hope.

4. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?
(a) Plan political rallies.
(b) Go skiing.
(c) Attend the theater together.
(d) Have sex together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who addresses the Czech people?

2. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?

3. What is Kundera hired to write for a political magazine?

4. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?

5. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the meaning of laughter in part 3?

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

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

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

10. How is the fur hat symbolic?

(see the answer keys)

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