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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. How does the student feel as he returns home?
(a) Confused.
(b) Fully restored.
(c) Inferior.
(d) Dejected.
2. What is graphomania?
(a) The obsessive drive to write a book.
(b) The need for the perfect pen.
(c) A way of writing in cuneiform.
(d) The way they illustrate comics.
3. Who does Kristyna meet one day?
(a) A student on vacation.
(b) Her sister who had been kidnapped years ago.
(c) Her biological mother.
(d) A man who offers her a chance to act on stage.
4. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?
(a) Goes to plead for his release.
(b) Swallows a bottle of prescription pills and swims out into the sea.
(c) Returns to Prague.
(d) Takes her children out of the country.
5. What turns off the student about Kristyna when she arrives?
(a) Her provincial appearance.
(b) Her loud voice.
(c) Her obvious hero worship of him.
(d) Nothing; he is delighted with her.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is the student recognized?
2. What is Tamina not doing?
3. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
4. To what does the student manipulate Kristyna into agreeing?
5. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
Short Essay Questions
1. What character's life is again addressed in part 6 and how is her life dismissed in a sense?
2. What does Tamina do shortly after her husband dies and what might this foreshadow?
3. Where does the student go the day before Kristyna arrives and how does this affect the interaction between Kristyna and the student?
4. Discuss what graphomania is and how it is used in the context of this chapter.
5. Why is Tamina losing herself and why does she think the notebooks will help her situation?
6. What is ironic about the student deceiving Kristyna and attending the Writer's Club meeting?
7. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?
8. Explain who Tamina is and the significance of how Kundera describes her.
9. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get for her in Prague and why does Tamina make the request?
10. What is the relationship of litost to romantic love in general and specifically in relation to Kristyna and the student?
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