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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. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Randolph.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Robert.
2. What is Tamina not doing?
(a) Thinking of her children.
(b) Taking care of herself.
(c) Trying to create a present or future for herself.
(d) Staying in touch with her husband in prison.
3. What happens to Tamina after she sleeps with Hugo?
(a) She is silent permanently.
(b) She regains her voice and words.
(c) She tells him to leave her home and never come back.
(d) She cries.
4. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Fully immersed in his litost.
(b) Full of inspiration.
(c) Feeling rejected.
(d) Feeling really great.
5. What does Tamina do shortly after losing her husband?
(a) Returns to Prague.
(b) Takes her children out of the country.
(c) Swallows a bottle of prescription pills and swims out into the sea.
(d) Goes to plead for his release.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Kristyna and the person she meets do?
2. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?
3. Who is Bibi?
4. Why don't the student and Kristyna consummate their relationship?
5. What does Tamina do when the boy gets tired?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tamina do shortly after her husband dies and what might this foreshadow?
2. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?
3. Where does Tamina go with Raphael?
4. To what do Kristyna and the student agree and what is the outcome? What does the student's evaluation of Kristyna tell the reader?
5. How are the Czechs and litost related in Kundera's opinion?
6. Why is Tamina losing herself and why does she think the notebooks will help her situation?
7. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?
8. What conditions have to exist for graphomania to blossom?
9. What happens to Kundera's father in Part 6 and what do you think is the significance of Kundera writing about what happens to his father?
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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