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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. Why does Maman push away her husband's hand when he wants to make love?
(a) She knows that she no longer loves him.
(b) She wants him to apologize for humiliating her.
(c) She wants to punish him for humiliating her.
(d) She suspects that he was cheating.

2. Who or what is the real source of Jaromil's poetic inspiration?
(a) The children's books his mother read.
(b) His father's influence.
(c) His grandpa.
(d) His talent.

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

4. What reason does the poet's father give for not having more children?
(a) Jaromil is such a nuisance that he does not want more like him.
(b) He is about to go to war and would not be a part of the children's lives.
(c) He was forced to compromise for one child in the beginning, so Maman should compromise and be happy with only one.
(d) He cannot afford to raise more children.

5. Why does the artist begin loaning books to Jaromil?
(a) He wants Jaromil to think that he is very smart.
(b) So that Maman will be unafraid to read them.
(c) He wants to expand Jaromil's knowledge of art.
(d) So that Jaromil will study in his spare time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Jaromil's drawings favor dogs?

2. In looking at the Apollo statue, what does Maman hope?

3. In confiding to Jaromil, what does Maman say is her greatest love?

4. What pleased the artist the most about Jaromil's drawings?

5. To what does Jaromil poetically compare Magda?

(see the answer key)

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