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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 Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?
(a) He is not sure how to do it, just that it is necessary.
(b) By indoctrinating their children.
(c) By killing them one by one.
(d) By erasing their memory of their previous culture.

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

3. Where does Voltaire invite the student?
(a) To hear a poetry reading at a pub.
(b) To watch a reenactment of independence day.
(c) To his home for dinner.
(d) A meeting of the Writer's Club.

4. Who is Bibi?
(a) Tamina's lover.
(b) A ballerina.
(c) A regular customer to the cafe.
(d) The owner of the cafe.

5. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Gives him some candy for energy.
(c) Tosses him overboard.
(d) Takes over rowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the children on Tamina's team begin to win games?

2. What happens to Hubl after his comments?

3. How is the student recognized?

4. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?

5. What language is the word litost?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?

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

6. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?

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

8. Why do you think Kundera blurs historical moments?

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

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

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