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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 do the children on Tamina's team begin to win games?
(a) They beat up anyone who might start to win.
(b) Because of Tamina's size and advanced dextrity.
(c) They are the smartest.
(d) They cheat.

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

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

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

5. Where does Tamina work?
(a) We are not told.
(b) As a waitress at a cafe.
(c) As a nanny to one of the big Communist Bosses.
(d) As a secretary to the Minister of Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?

2. What turns off the student about Kristyna when she arrives?

3. What does Tamina do one day?

4. What does litost mean?

5. How is the student recognized?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does the student go the day before Kristyna arrives and how does this affect the interaction between Kristyna and the student?

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

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

5. To what do Kristyna and the student agree and what is the outcome? What does the student's evaluation of Kristyna tell the reader?

6. Who is Kristyna?

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

8. Where does Tamina go with Raphael?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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