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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 happens to Jaromil's uncle?
(a) He is charged with fraud and imprisoned.
(b) He contracts pneumonia and dies.
(c) He is charged with being an enemy of the state and imprisoned.
(d) He leaves his wife to hide in a remote village.

2. Symbolically, what role does Maman want to play in Jaromil's life?
(a) The source of eternal light.
(b) An all-encompassing embrace.
(c) A guardian angel.
(d) A large meadow.

3. How does Maman view her love for the young engineer?
(a) As a revolt against her parents' prosaic lives.
(b) As the preface for the love for her child.
(c) As her life's consuming passion.
(d) As a passing fling.

4. While Jaromil is talking with the redhead about love, how does death enter the conversation?
(a) When she swore she could not live without 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 he threatens to kill her if she ever leaves him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Xavier leave the beautiful woman?

2. What does Xavier do with the husband after his presence is discovered?

3. Jaromil agonizes over his hair. What kind of hair does he have?

4. Why does Maman not want to go to the lake on vacation?

5. What puzzles Jaromil about the artist's poetry critiques?

(see the answer key)

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