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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. 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. What kind of verbs does Jaromil love?
(a) Verbs that are related to love.
(b) Verbs that describe the power of the future.
(c) Complicated verbs related to the emotions.
(d) Simple verbs that describe one motion.

3. In looking at the Apollo statue, what does Maman hope?
(a) That her son will resemble the god rather than his human father.
(b) That her son will inherit the god's divine attributes.
(c) That Apollo will protect her son from the world.
(d) That the gods will treat her child favorably.

4. Why is Jaromil jealous of the redhead?
(a) Because her doctor sees her body.
(b) She will not tell him where she got the flowers on the table.
(c) She receives letters from a man he does not know.
(d) He suspects that she is cheating.

5. What does Jaromil see as the sign that his verses have true power?
(a) The emotion on his mother's face when she reads them.
(b) The artist's enthusiastic reaction.
(c) The poems' ability to stand on their own as independent works.
(d) His own thrill at the sounds of the words.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Marxist debate which Jaromil attends, how does one person cause a distraction?

2. Why does Maman want to return to her relationship with the artist?

3. What does Xavier take as an invitation to enter the house?

4. What does Jaromil write in his diary about the night he was supposed to lose his virginity?

5. When Jaromil and the university girl are kissing in her house, what does Jaromil think about obsessively?

(see the answer key)

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