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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chaps. 6-11, pp. 27- 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maman have complete control of her son?
(a) By being very strict with him.
(b) By deciding what he wears and eats.
(c) By controlling his emotions.
(d) By acting as both his mother and father.

2. Why does Maman weep as the artist makes love to her?
(a) She knows that she is nothing more than the canvas for his ideas.
(b) She is finally ashamed of the affair.
(c) She is sad that she will never marry him.
(d) She equates him to the Apollo statue, which she had wanted to be the model of Jaromil's personality.

3. What pleased the artist the most about Jaromil's drawings?
(a) Jaromil's own modesty when presenting them.
(b) The amount of time and care that went into them.
(c) The high degree of talent which they exhibited.
(d) The original inner world that they revealed.

4. Why does Jaromil not react to the words his mother painted for his room redecoration?
(a) He is amazed that his words have their own significance.
(b) He does not recognize that the words are his.
(c) He is ashamed that she used his own words.
(d) He is embarrassed to show how proud he is of them.

5. According to the poet's father, where was the poet conceived?
(a) On a park bench.
(b) In the mother's apartment.
(c) In the apartment of his colleague.
(d) In the countryside near Prague.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Maman, where was the poet conceived?

3. What night does Magda take her bath?

4. What is Jaromil's criterion for a true poem?

5. Why does the artist begin loaning books to Jaromil?

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