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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) Dejected.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Fully restored.
(d) Confused.
2. What happens to Kundera's father about the same time as what happens to Hubl?
(a) Kundera's father writes a refutation of Hubl's words.
(b) Kundera's father is removed from the position Minister of Justice.
(c) Kundera's father becomes ill.
(d) Kundera's father defects.
3. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?
(a) It is solved.
(b) It is expunged from the records.
(c) It is still being actively worked.
(d) It is eventually forgotten.
4. About what does Husak make a speech?
(a) The importance of children to our future.
(b) The importance of a purity of heart to our future.
(c) The importance of commerce to our future.
(d) The importance of justice to our future
5. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) That's great.
(b) Stranger things have happened.
(c) That's strange.
(d) Strange that it is true.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get at Tamina's stepmother's house?
2. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?
3. What happens to Tamina eventually?
4. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
5. What happens to Tamina?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Tamina go with Raphael?
2. Why do you think Kundera blurs historical moments?
3. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?
4. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get for her in Prague and why does Tamina make the request?
5. What is the relationship of litost to romantic love in general and specifically in relation to Kristyna and the student?
6. To what do Kristyna and the student agree and what is the outcome? What does the student's evaluation of Kristyna tell the reader?
7. Why is Tamina losing herself and why does she think the notebooks will help her situation?
8. What conditions have to exist for graphomania to blossom?
9. How are the Czechs and litost related in Kundera's opinion?
10. What character's life is again addressed in part 6 and how is her life dismissed in a sense?
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