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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Maman view her love for the young engineer?
2. What puzzles Jaromil about the artist's poetry critiques?
3. Which famous composer's music is played at the blond girl's funeral?
4. As the story reveals, what is in store for the famous poet?
5. Why is the famous poet booed by the audience after he reads a poem?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the point of the scene in which Xavier leads his military compatriots to battle? Why does he not get his wish for death?
2. When the Communists stage a coup, Jaromil and his uncle fight about the justice of the action. What does this fight reveal about Jaromil's place in the world, particularly in the political realm?
3. Throughout the second half of Part 3, what do Jaromil and the university girl think about their love? What impression does their opinion give to the reader?
4. Given the first three paragraphs of Part 2, what leads the reader to believe that this character is Jaromil? What clues tell the reader that it is someone else?
5. What does Xavier notice most about the woman in the apartment? How does the woman use her eyes?
6. How does the artist's concept of an "inner world" (Part 1, Chapter 6, pg 30) dramatically change Jaromil's character?
7. What does the artist want most of all for Maman? Why is this difficult for her?
8. What role does Jaromil want the artist to play in his life? How does the artist fall short of these expectations?
9. When Maman combs Jaromil's hair in front of her guests, how does he react? According to the implications of the text, how does this deepen the rift between them?
10. How does Jaromil view the loss of his virginity as a metaphysical event? Is his perception true?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the beautiful blond girl's death prefigure Jaromil's own death? How have both people been betrayed by Xavier?
Essay Topic 2
What interaction do the characters have with nature? When is nature kind and when is it cruel? How much responsibility does nature bear for actions in the characters' lives (i.e., the boulder, the park, the snow, and the cold wind).
Essay Topic 3
Find examples of older people in love with younger. How does this fit the Freudian theme of Jaromil with his mother? What is the significance in the fact that Xavier cannot undress the old woman?
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