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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. Symbolically, what role does Maman want to play in Jaromil's life?
2. How old is Jaromil when he catches pneumonia?
3. What disguise does Jaromil use for treating the redhead with cruelty?
4. Just outside the prison, why does the girl hate to see the horses and riders?
5. When the redhead is fifteen minutes late, what is the first excuse she gives Jaromil?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Jaromil's hopes for the two women in his life? What does this show about his understanding of both women?
2. According to Jaromil, why did he run from the window where he first saw the redheaded girl? How does this move the story forward and reveal Jaromil's personality at the same time?
3. In planning the documentary about Jaromil's life, what do Maman and Jaromil reveal about themselves? What do they reveal about their relationship?
4. What does the middle-aged man tell the girl about Jaromil? How is this story the opposite of what Jaromil ever wanted?
5. After not sleeping with the cinematographer, Jaromil considers his underwear for a long time, in light of the women involved. What does he decide? How does this single piece of clothing drive so much of what he does?
6. What arguments do Jaromil and the redhead have concerning their families? How does this illustrate Jaromil's juvenile mindset?
7. When the girl visits the middle-aged man, she is wearing winter clothes. What does this detail reveal about the timing in the story?
8. Maman is disillusioned about the cinematography girl after the girl does not invite her to the party. How does this show the similarity between Maman and the girl?
9. As it is painfully revealed in Part 5, Chapters 4 - 6, why do Maman and Jaromil struggle to live together? What does this say about their relationship as mother and son?
10. When Jaromil is angry at the redhead for being fifteen minutes late, what change ensues in their relationship? How does this mark a turning point in Jaromil's development as a person?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What element causes Jaromil's death? How is this suited to his life? What does it mean that at the end he looked into his own face, and what horror is added in that moment?
Essay Topic 2
How does the beautiful blond girl's death prefigure Jaromil's own death? How have both people been betrayed by Xavier?
Essay Topic 3
Jaromil's father is his greatest friend (Part I, Chapter 4, pg 21). What might his mother have felt during that time? How does this weaken the close bond she has had with him before?
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