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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator view the town square of his hometown after his long absence?
(a) He finds it beautiful.
(b) He finds it charming.
(c) He finds it changed from his memory.
(d) He finds it unsightly.

2. 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 small family of three.
(b) They are a man and a woman.
(c) It is an old man traveling alone, talking to himself.
(d) They are a large family of five.

3. After the woman giving Ludvik finishes soaping his face and gets up to retrieve the razor, Ludvick wants to look at her and realizes what?
(a) Ludvik doesn't know this woman.
(b) Ludvik dislikes this woman.
(c) Ludvik knows the woman.
(d) Ludvik knows the woman's younger sister.

4. When did Helena realize she was in love with Zemanek?
(a) After they married.
(b) On the anniversary of the Liberation in Old Town Square.
(c) While visiting Italy with their ensemble.
(d) At a meeting for the Youth League.

5. Who at Helena's work station likes her?
(a) Jindra.
(b) Her boss.
(c) Pavel.
(d) All the girls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Helena's daughter?

3. Ludvik, as the woman giving him a shave soaps his face, slips into what?

4. Ludvik and Kostka sit in Kostka's flat before he has to go back to the hospital and chat over what?

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

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