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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Jaroslav.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's hometown?
(a) Brno.
(b) Prague.
(c) Moravia.
(d) Bratislava.

2. How does Zdena feel about Zemanek?
(a) She loathes him.
(b) She likes him enough to get by.
(c) She worships him.
(d) She is impartial to him.

3. Kostka hopes that Ludvik will use his flat for what?
(a) "Something destructive."
(b) "Something really beautiful."
(c) "Something very clean."
(d) "Something very laughable."

4. What helped spread the resurgence of folk music in Jaroslav's university years?
(a) Nihilism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

5. As a student, where did Ludvik hold an important post?
(a) Sect of Young Marxists.
(b) League of University Students.
(c) Justice of Collegiate Students.
(d) Society of Students.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kostka receive Ludvik after not seeing each other in so long?

2. At the end of her first year at university, Marketa is sent away by who?

3. What does Ludvik's group, marked by their black insignia, work on every morning?

4. Why is Helena going to Moravia?

5. How does the narrator view the town square of his hometown after his long absence?

(see the answer key)

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