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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Helena.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zemanek do at university?
(a) Lecture on math.
(b) Lecture on Stalin.
(c) Lecture on history.
(d) Lecture on Marxism.

2. As the woman cleans Ludvik's face with a towel, what does Ludvik pretend?
(a) She is slapping him.
(b) She is caressing him.
(c) He is back in Prague with his regular barber.
(d) He is being cleaned by someone else.

3. When does Helena believe her co-workers started disliking her?
(a) Two co-workers were having an affair and Helena took a stand against it.
(b) Helena was having an affair and misled the Party.
(c) Helena was having multiple affairs and misleading the Party.
(d) Two co-workers were having an affair and Helena took their side.

4. Ludvik overhears his neighbors in the hotel as soon as he is settled in. What does he learn about the neighbors?
(a) They are a man and a woman.
(b) They are a large family of five.
(c) They are a small family of three.
(d) It is an old man traveling alone, talking to himself.

5. Why is Helena going to Moravia?
(a) She made up a reason to get away from Ludvik.
(b) To do a feature on the Ride of the Kings.
(c) She made up a reason to get closer to Ludvik.
(d) To do a feature on the gallows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ludvik feel about the differences between himself and Kostka?

2. Ludvik and Kostka, just before Kostka returns to the hospital, come to an ideological impasse. How long ago were they in the same position?

3. How many empty chairs are at the barber where Ludvik goes to get a shave?

4. What is the state of Ludvik's hotel room?

5. What does Ludvik think of this woman's voice who shaved him?

(see the answer key)

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