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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chaps. 9-11, pp. 242-266.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maman not want to go to the lake on vacation?
(a) Jaromil did not want to go with her.
(b) She did not have enough money.
(c) It would have reminded her of happier summers.
(d) She wanted her husband to go along.

2. How does Maman have complete control of her son?
(a) By being very strict with him.
(b) By acting as both his mother and father.
(c) By controlling his emotions.
(d) By deciding what he wears and eats.

3. What happens during the second half of Jaromil's poetry recitation?
(a) The pretty cinematographer throws a rose to him.
(b) Lights come on and a camera starts rolling.
(c) He loses his place on the page and becomes flustered.
(d) The audience gives him a standing ovation so he has to stop reading.

4. Why does Jaromil imitate his peers' actions and speech as if he's in a mirror?
(a) He is a year older than they are.
(b) He has very low self-esteem.
(c) He is a year younger than they are.
(d) He does not know how to be his own person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Part 4, Chapter 1 begins with an anecdote about which poet?

2. When Jaromil wants to recite poetry to the redhead, what disturbing thought occurs to him?

3. Returning home from the police station, what does Jaromil find?

4. In the opinion of Jaromil's uncle, why did the revolution occur?

5. Why does Xavier leave the beautiful woman?

(see the answer key)

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