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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 does Jaromil hang on the wall in his room?
(a) A portrait of Karl Marx.
(b) A portrait of his father.
(c) His parents' wedding picture.
(d) A portrait of his mother.

2. What is Jaromil's criterion for a true poem?
(a) It must be read by someone other than the author.
(b) It must be able to stand apart from other poems.
(c) It must have an established form.
(d) It must sound poetic when it is recited.

3. In Part III, Chapter 19, how does Jaromil get a fever?
(a) He takes a walk around the snowy town without wearing winter clothes.
(b) He stands on the balcony of a girl's apartment in the snow.
(c) He sits on a park bench with the university girl.
(d) He visits the university girl when she is sick.

4. In confiding to Jaromil, what does Maman say is her greatest love?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Literature.
(c) Family life and stability.
(d) Her son.

5. To what does Jaromil poetically compare Magda?
(a) Ice and cruelty.
(b) Water and sorrow.
(c) Fire and passion.
(d) Earth and stability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jaromil's uncle?

2. Why does Jaromil walk through the world with a feeling of guilt?

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

4. According to Kundera, why is lyricism immature?

5. What classic womanly question does the university girl ask Jaromil?

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