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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who makes the first toast to Maryna at dinner?
(a) The writer.
(b) The critic.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The husband.

2. Of what do Maryna and Henryk speak the day after her performance?
(a) Depression and fatalism.
(b) Paradise and will.
(c) Love and marriage.
(d) Past and future.

3. What news does Tadeusz receive in Krakow?
(a) He is offered the position of headmaster at the school.
(b) He is offered a major part in a Shakespearean play.
(c) He is offered the directorship of the Lwow Theatre.
(d) He is offered a contract at the Imperial Theatre.

4. What does Henryk teach Piotr when he comes to visit?
(a) How to bake a cake.
(b) How to shoot a gun.
(c) How to bandage a dog's paw.
(d) Darwinism/evolution.

5. Where is Zakopane?
(a) In the Rocky Mountains.
(b) In the Alps.
(c) In the Tatras Mountains.
(d) In the Ural Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jozefina?

2. Who slaps Maryna across the face?

3. Who is Maryna portraying at the end of her performance before the celebration dinner party?

4. Why does Maryna declare "you have waited so long."

5. Who is called a "national symbol?"

(see the answer key)

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