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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 is Jaromil not jealous when he considers the redhead in the hands of the policemen?
2. Returning home from the police station, what does Jaromil find?
3. While Jaromil is answering questions about love and socialism, what is he most conscious of?
4. At Jaromil's sick bed, what words link Maman most closely to him, in her mind?
5. When does Jaromil's anger toward the girl at last subside?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Maman's opinion about the redheaded girl? How does her reaction perpetuate the cycle of her own relationship with Jaromil?
2. "History does not always make a dramatic entrance, it often seeps through every-day life like dirty dishwater. In our story, History makes its appearance in the guise of underwear" (Part 5, Chapter 8, pg 239). What does this mean in the context of Jaromil's story?
3. "Only a real poet knows how lonely it is inside the mirrored house of poetry" (Part 7, Chapter 1, pg 289). Where else does the reader see mirrors in the story, and how does this sentence relate to Jaromil's life?
4. Jaromil's first revelation about duty is that it is "voluntary and represents human daring and dignity" (Part 5, Chapter 11, pg 263). Given his situation, is this true?
5. What happens when Jaromil recites his poems to the audience of police members? How does this compare to the hopes he has had?
6. 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?
7. In planning the documentary about Jaromil's life, what do Maman and Jaromil reveal about themselves? What do they reveal about their relationship?
8. 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?
9. How is the girl a different person from when she went into the prison? How is she more like Jaromil had been?
10. How does the author insert his own thoughts into Part 6, Chapter 1? What effect does this have on this entire part?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the setting of the novel? How does this establish the story? How might the story be different in another setting?
Essay Topic 2
Jaromil has realized several times that he has not entered into "real life" (Part 5, Chapter 5, pg 216). Where are the instances of this? How does this convert the book's title into a theme throughout the book?
Essay Topic 3
How is Xavier an important person because of the list in his notebook? How might Jaromil seek similar importance through these fantasies/dreams?
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