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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. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Fully immersed in his litost.
(b) Feeling really great.
(c) Feeling rejected.
(d) Full of inspiration.

2. Who is Banaka?
(a) Bibi's uncle.
(b) A local novelist.
(c) A local crime boss.
(d) The foreman at the factory where Bibi works.

3. What does the student debate with others?
(a) The might of capitalism to overthrow communism.
(b) The right of Russia to be in Hungary.
(c) The political situation in Prague.
(d) Poetry and philosophical tenets.

4. What does Tamina do one day?
(a) Kills the biggest boy in the group.
(b) Teaches the children how to talk.
(c) Tries to swim away from the island.
(d) Takes over an entire dorm room.

5. About what does Husak make a speech?
(a) The importance of a purity of heart to our future.
(b) The importance of justice to our future
(c) The importance of children to our future.
(d) The importance of commerce to our future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?

2. How is Tamina's apartment?

3. What entices Kristyna?

4. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?

5. What is Tamina not doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Tamina's situation where Raphael takes her similar to her husband's situation just before he dies?

2. Who does Kristyna meet and what attracts her to this person?

3. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?

4. What happens to Kundera's father in Part 6 and what do you think is the significance of Kundera writing about what happens to his father?

5. How are the Czechs and litost related in Kundera's opinion?

6. What character's life is again addressed in part 6 and how is her life dismissed in a sense?

7. How is Kundera's father's attempt to understand Beethoven undertaken by Kundera?

8. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

9. What conditions have to exist for graphomania to blossom?

10. Who is Kristyna?

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