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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Helena believes that there is no split between what?
(a) Husband and wife.
(b) Public and private selves.
(c) Politics and morals.
(d) Church and state.

2. What is Helena doing the evening of the beginning of part two?
(a) Going to bed early.
(b) Mending clothes all night.
(c) Staying up late to read.
(d) Cleaning her house until the dawn.

3. What does Helena like about Ludvik?
(a) He is normal and straightforward.
(b) He is strange and mysterious.
(c) He is changable.
(d) He is melancholy and artistic.

4. According to Helena, what does Zemanek live on?
(a) Drink.
(b) Applause.
(c) His morals.
(d) Hard work.

5. What did Zemanek say to Helena in the heat of an argument when their daughter was five?
(a) Everyone loves in different ways.
(b) He was sorry they were fighting and he loves her.
(c) That he believed Zdena wasn't his daughter.
(d) They married out of Party discipline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Helena and Ludvik go after running around the woods and Helena sings, "Oh brightly shines the sun in our garden..."?

2. When Ludvik sits down to have a shave, what does he do?

3. Kostka hopes that Ludvik will use his flat for what?

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

5. Where did Zemanek go at the beginning of part two?

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