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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. Why doesn't the memory of Tamina's husband torment her any longer?
(a) She has had a lobotomy.
(b) She is in love with Raphael.
(c) She has had a stroke.
(d) She is in a place of no history.

2. What does Tamina think the ostriches are doing?
(a) Laughing at her.
(b) Asking for mercy.
(c) Teaching her.
(d) Warning her.

3. How does the student spend the evening?
(a) In the presence of great minds.
(b) Carousing with friends.
(c) In the arms of a prostitute.
(d) Sleeping at a friend's house.

4. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
(a) Mirek and Kafta.
(b) Kundera and Mirek.
(c) No others.
(d) Kafta and Svaboda.

5. What happens to Tamina after she sleeps with Hugo?
(a) She cries.
(b) She tells him to leave her home and never come back.
(c) She regains her voice and words.
(d) She is silent permanently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does litost mean?

2. What happens to Tamina?

3. Where does Tamina work?

4. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?

5. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

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

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

4. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get for her in Prague and why does Tamina make the request?

5. What is the meaning of the word litost?

6. Where does Tamina go with Raphael?

7. What does Kundera do at the opening to Part VI: The Angels?

8. 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?

9. Why do you think Kundera blurs historical moments?

10. Why is Tamina losing herself and why does she think the notebooks will help her situation?

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