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

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

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

4. What is Xavier's first impression of the woman in the house?
(a) Contentment.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Tiredness.
(d) Melancholy.

5. According to Maman, where was the poet conceived?
(a) On a park bench.
(b) In the countryside near Prague.
(c) In her apartment.
(d) In the apartment of the father's colleague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Xavier stay in the woman's room when her husband comes home?

2. Why does Jaromil go to the beach with Maman and her friends?

3. What does Jaromil think is the quintessential surrealist object?

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

5. Why is 1949 an interesting year for Czech youth?

(see the answer key)

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