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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chaps. 9-11, pp. 242-266.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Jaromil, what determines a woman's beauty?
(a) Her spirit.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her hands.
(d) Her body.

2. Returning home from the police station, what does Jaromil find?
(a) A letter of praise from the janitor's son about his poetry.
(b) A letter from the redhead breaking up with him.
(c) A letter from his uncle who was sent to prison several years earlier.
(d) An invitation from the cinematographer to attend a party.

3. What makes Maman think that Jaromil is actually becoming like a son of Apollo?
(a) His face is becoming beautiful and godlike rather than coarse.
(b) He values the Greek gods more than passing political trend.
(c) He has taken down the picture of his father.
(d) He has begun writing beautiful poems, not poems of death.

4. Which famous composer's music is played at the blond girl's funeral?
(a) Beethoven's.
(b) Bach's.
(c) Chopin's.
(d) Mozart's.

5. What does the redhead claim that she did when she had a doctor's appointment?
(a) Threw away the appointment card and didn't go.
(b) Burned the appointment card.
(c) Sent the appointment card back to the doctor.
(d) Went to the appointment even though she hated it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jaromil's opinion of the redhead's family?

2. What is the highest point of happiness which Jaromil reaches so far in his life?

3. What does Jaromil hang on the wall in his room?

4. Why does Jaromil agree to read in the presentation of poets?

5. Why does Jaromil go to the beach with Maman and her friends?

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