View a FREE sample

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's case in the police files?
(a) It is still being actively worked.
(b) It is expunged from the records.
(c) It is solved.
(d) It is eventually forgotten.

2. What does the man who orders a coke ask Tamina?
(a) If she wants to go somewhere where there is no weight.
(b) If she is ready for heaven.
(c) If she wants to go to the movies with him.
(d) Why she is working at a capitalist place.

3. What is the island like where Tamina and the boy are at?
(a) It is full of children.
(b) It is full of strange animals.
(c) It is deserted.
(d) It is full of lush vegetation and has a few elderly women.

4. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?
(a) Get to know each other.
(b) Have an emotional affair.
(c) Tell each other all about her life over the past twenty years.
(d) Argues about Kristyna moving to London.

5. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?
(a) Kundera's father defects.
(b) Kundera's father becomes ill.
(c) Kundera's father writes a refutation of Hubl's words.
(d) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?

2. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?

3. How does Tamina spend her time?

4. How does the student feel as he returns home?

5. What does Husak desire?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get for her in Prague and why does Tamina make the request?

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

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

5. Why do you think Kundera blurs historical moments?

6. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?

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

8. What does Kundera do at the opening to Part VI: The Angels?

9. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

10. Who is Kristyna?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,172 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample