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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. Why does the artist paint two X's on Maman's face?
2. Why do Jaromil's drawings favor dogs?
3. Why does Jaromil not speak to the cashier when she leaves the store?
4. Where does Jaromil show off opinions about education which he heard from his grandfather?
5. Why does Jaromil begin taking lesson from the art teacher?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Xavier's interactions with the woman in the apartment, what role does water play?
2. At the debate in Part 3, Chapter 15, what arguments does Jaromil make about progress? Given his own life, how are these views ironic?
3. How does Kundera describe Jaromil's nursing? How does this set the tone for the future relationship between mother and son?
4. When Jaromil is unable to make love to the university girl a second time, he pretends that there is another woman in his life. To what extent is this true?
5. Why does Xavier leave the woman behind at the end of Part 2?
6. "It was sad, but beautiful, too: for a moment, Jaromil lost the feeling of being a mere child" (Part 3, Chapter 25, pg 150). What causes this moment? Will it last?
7. What does Xavier notice most about the woman in the apartment? How does the woman use her eyes?
8. How does Jaromil view the loss of his virginity as a metaphysical event? Is his perception true?
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. When Jaromil returns at midnight after walking the university girl home, Maman becomes hysterical because she was worried about him. What does this scene show about these two people's perception of love?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role does guilt play in Jaromil's life? How does Maman use guilt, and how is she susceptible to it herself?
Essay Topic 2
What implications are there in Xavier's dance with the older woman? Are details of her age seen as something beautiful? How does this dance show Xavier's triumph over a girl his own age? What about over his own age? How is his love for the blond girl incomplete without his demonstration of love for the old woman?
Essay Topic 3
Is Jaromil's jealousy of the redhead's body acceptable? How is he acting toward her in the same way that Maman acts toward him?
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