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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 happens to Tamina?
(a) She is left alone on the deserted islad.
(b) She is eaten by the animals.
(c) She is given a room full of children and no privacy.
(d) She joins the elderly women.

2. What does Tamina find within herself?
(a) A treasured silence.
(b) Resilience.
(c) A tendency to wander mentally.
(d) Anger like she has never known.

3. What is Tamina not doing?
(a) Trying to create a present or future for herself.
(b) Staying in touch with her husband in prison.
(c) Taking care of herself.
(d) Thinking of her children.

4. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?
(a) By raping her.
(b) They do not reward her.
(c) By rowing her back to the mainland.
(d) By letting her have her own room.

5. Of what is Bibi convinced?
(a) She is going to be an actress.
(b) She is going to get to the United States.
(c) She is going to die young.
(d) She is going to write a novel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the poets do to the student's view of Kristyna?

4. Why does the student settle into litost?

5. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the meaning of the word litost?

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

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 does Kristyna meet and what attracts her to this person?

7. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

8. Who is Kristyna?

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

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

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