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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Poet Masturbates, Chaps. 1-14, pp.93-114.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Jaromil and Maman reach the lake resort?
(a) By train.
(b) By car.
(c) By train and buggy.
(d) By walking.

2. What is the first time Jaromil's words save him from punishment?
(a) When he began reciting the encyclopedia.
(b) When his insult was a rhyme.
(c) When he yelled in a trochee speech pattern.
(d) When he used adult vocabulary at a young age.

3. What is Xavier's first impression of the woman in the house?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Tiredness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Contentment.

4. What is unusual about Xavier's presence at the blond girl's funeral?
(a) He knows nearly half of the other mourners.
(b) He is not at all sad that she died.
(c) He attended the funeral although he did not truly love her.
(d) He is the only one who knows what caused her death.

5. What is the primary reason that Xavier runs into danger ahead of his comrades?
(a) He wants to make up for losing the list that they wanted.
(b) He would rather die in battle as die an old man.
(c) He wants to live in the exciting aura of death.
(d) He wants to show them that he is a man and worthy of their friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maman feel guilty about her husband's death?

2. What does Xavier take as an invitation to enter the house?

3. Where does Jaromil show off opinions about education which he heard from his grandfather?

4. Why does Maman want to return to her relationship with the artist?

5. To Jaromil, what determines a woman's beauty?

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