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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. What does Xavier do with the husband after his presence is discovered?
(a) Pushes the husband into the wardrobe and locks it.
(b) Pushes the husband out the three-story window.
(c) Beats him up so that he loses consciousness.
(d) Wrestles the husband to the ground and ties his hands.

2. While Jaromil is talking with the redhead about love, how does death enter the conversation?
(a) When he threatens to kill her if she ever leaves him.
(b) When they promise to be die together in suicide.
(c) When she threatens to kill herself if he ever leaves her.
(d) When she swore she could not live without him.

3. Why does Maman feel guilty about her husband's death?
(a) She had inadvertently caused his death.
(b) She had been unfaithful to him while he was involved in the underground mission.
(c) The news of his death had not made her sad.
(d) She does not miss him because she has Jaromil.

4. In confiding to Jaromil, what does Maman say is her greatest love?
(a) Literature.
(b) Family life and stability.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her husband.

5. What is the artist's opinion about Jaromil's drawings of headless women?
(a) The environments of the pictures do not acknowledge humanity.
(b) Jaromil does not have enough talent to draw portraits.
(c) Jaromil does not acknowledge humanity.
(d) Jaromil's drawings reflect a fear of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disguise does Jaromil use for treating the redhead with cruelty?

2. Why is revolution an exciting prospect to young people?

3. In the cinematographer's apartment, what happens?

4. Returning home from the police station, what does Jaromil find?

5. In the opinion of Jaromil's uncle, why did the revolution occur?

(see the answer key)

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