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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chaps. 4-6, pp. 204-225.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What classic womanly question does the university girl ask Jaromil?
(a) If he will love her forever.
(b) If she looks fat in her dress.
(c) How many kids he wants.
(d) If she looks better clothed or unclothed.

2. Why does the blond girl wear a beautiful white dress to the dance hall?
(a) She wants to personify the snow.
(b) She wants Xavier to notice her.
(c) It is her wedding dress.
(d) She wants to attract attention from the boys around her.

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

4. What can only a true poet know?
(a) The desire not to be a poet.
(b) The desire to be a part of the world.
(c) The desire to live in a world without mirrors.
(d) The desire to write a life-changing poem.

5. What does the theme of the long poem reveal about Jaromil's thoughts?
(a) He is obsessed with a woman's body.
(b) He longs for death.
(c) He is afraid of a woman's body.
(d) He is afraid he will never find true love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a classmate asks Jaromil about the redhead?

2. What idea about poetry does the artist's chastisement cause in Jaromil's mind?

3. When do Jaromil's parents redecorate his room?

4. In the poem "Epitaph," how does Jaromil wish to die?

5. On the train, why does Xavier avoid his Latin professor?

(see the answer key)

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