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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 Kristyna ask the student to get her?
(a) A new writing tablet.
(b) An inscription written by the poet they call Goethe in her book.
(c) A book on philosophy.
(d) Two more books by Kant.

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

3. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?
(a) The book with the inscription.
(b) Meeting great minds.
(c) Her memories of the Club meeting.
(d) The discussions she has with the student.

4. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) Stranger things have happened.
(b) That's strange.
(c) Strange that it is true.
(d) That's great.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tamina eventually?

2. What does Tamina try to recreate?

3. How does Tamina spend her time?

4. Where does Tamina work?

5. Where is Bibi going for the summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain who Tamina is and the significance of how Kundera describes her.

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

4. What is the relationship of litost to romantic love in general and specifically in relation to Kristyna and the student?

5. What is the meaning of the word litost?

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

7. What does Tamina do shortly after her husband dies and what might this foreshadow?

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

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

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

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