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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. When Maman returns home early one evening while the redhead is visiting, what does she pretend is happening?
(a) The redhead is having cramps and needs her help.
(b) Jaromil is disobeying a house rule and the redhead must leave.
(c) She is sick and needs Jaromil to take care of her.
(d) She is having a heart attack in the kitchen.

2. What does Jaromil do when the redhead catches him staring through her apartment window?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Knocks on her door.
(c) Brings her flowers.
(d) Keeps staring unabashedly.

3. Why is there silence at the beginning of the question-and-answer time following the recitation?
(a) No one cares about the poems enough to ask questions.
(b) The poets are professional and know what the questions will be.
(c) Everyone is respectfully waiting for the silver-haired poet to speak first.
(d) No one knows how to begin.

4. Why does Jaromil write so many poems about women's bodies?
(a) He wants to immortalize the body of his first lover.
(b) The body is beyond the reach of his understanding.
(c) He wants to establish himself as a romantic poet.
(d) He is obsessed with how women's bodies look.

5. Why does Xavier leave the beautiful woman?
(a) He loves her but not enough to fight her husband for her.
(b) He no longer loves her.
(c) His life is much more difficult than she can ever bear.
(d) The world becomes even more beautiful because it came at the cost of her love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What location is Maman most excited to film in?

3. When Jaromil has difficulty undressing the redhead, what is the girl wearing?

4. How does Maman shame Jaromil in front of her guests?

5. How does Jaromil treat his dates with girls?

(see the answer key)

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