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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. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?
(a) With a friend at a pub.
(b) He is in his apartment waiting for Kristyna.
(c) In class with someone referred to as Voltaire.
(d) He is in prison for distributing propaganda against the state.

2. Who does Kristyna meet one day?
(a) A student on vacation.
(b) A man who offers her a chance to act on stage.
(c) Her sister who had been kidnapped years ago.
(d) Her biological mother.

3. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?
(a) Their son.
(b) Some political propaganda.
(c) All Tamina and her husband's love letters.
(d) Their daughter.

4. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?
(a) Tells her he is married.
(b) Goes back on his promise to go to Prague.
(c) Tells her he is leaving the country.
(d) Asks her if she will marry him.

5. How is Tamina's situation similar to her husband's when he was ill?
(a) There is no similarity.
(b) He died in a hospital with no privacy and her new living arrangements mimic this setting.
(c) Neither of them understood the situation.
(d) He was physically ill and she is mentally ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Kristyna and a student she meets agree to reunite?

2. What language is the word litost?

3. What is Kristyna to the student?

4. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?

5. What is graphomania?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly describe a few of the most salient points about Tamina.

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

5. Who is Kristyna?

6. What is the meaning of the word litost?

7. What is ironic about the student deceiving Kristyna and attending the Writer's Club meeting?

8. Why do you think Kundera blurs historical moments?

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

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

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