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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) How many kids he wants.
(b) If she looks better clothed or unclothed.
(c) If he will love her forever.
(d) If she looks fat in her dress.

2. Why is 1949 an interesting year for Czech youth?
(a) Their jubilance is both voluntary and mandatory.
(b) Their Marxist ideas are taking hold more quickly than they ever expected.
(c) They have no idea how to implement their ideas for the future.
(d) They have destroyed the past but have no future.

3. Why does Maman take her husband's picture off the wall?
(a) He had not been involved in the underground resistance.
(b) She fell in love with someone else.
(c) He had been having an affair with a Jewish girl.
(d) He had been complying with the Communist takeover.

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

5. What does Xavier find most compelling about the woman in the house?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her breasts.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first time Jaromil's words save him from punishment?

2. What is unusual about Xavier's presence at the blond girl's funeral?

3. Why is Jaromil filled with pride after sleeping with the redhead girl?

4. How does Jaromil's father prepare for leaving home several days at a time on business trips?

5. In Part III, Chapter 19, how does Jaromil get a fever?

(see the answer key)

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