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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. To what does the student manipulate Kristyna into agreeing?
(a) To his going to the Writer's Club meeting.
(b) To getting her own motel room.
(c) To return that same day back to her home.
(d) To go to bed with him.

2. What does Tamina try to recreate?
(a) The notebooks filled with their past and love letters or even his face.
(b) The scene where her husband is arrested.
(c) A safe home for the children.
(d) The last day of her husband's life.

3. What do Kristyna and the student decide?
(a) To marry.
(b) To not see each other again because of her husband.
(c) To travel to Italy.
(d) To meet in the city on a particular weekend.

4. What do the poets do to the student's view of Kristyna?
(a) They cast her in a better light.
(b) Undermine her.
(c) Wreck it.
(d) Restore it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Tamina's apartment?

2. Where does Voltaire invite the student?

3. Why do the police go to Tamina's apartment?

4. How do the children on Tamina's team reward her?

5. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Tamina go with Raphael?

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

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

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

5. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

6. Discuss what graphomania is and how it is used in the context of this chapter.

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

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

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

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

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