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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Ludvik.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Helena move to Prague?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1939.

3. Where is Marketa sent, at the end of her first year at university?
(a) Italy for a week to scout for new leadership.
(b) A two-year trip to study plants.
(c) A month in Paris to study Marxism.
(d) A two-week Party training session.

4. What does Ludvik's group, marked by their black insignia, work on every morning?
(a) The sewers.
(b) The roads.
(c) The hospitals.
(d) The mines.

5. Who narrates part three of "The Joke"?
(a) Ostrava.
(b) Marketa.
(c) Ludvik.
(d) Lucie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the wedding festivities last between Zemanek and Helena?

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

3. What does Zemanek do at university?

4. What did Zemanek give Helena, his most favorite possession, as a gesture of reconciliation?

5. What does the narrator do at the beginning of part three?

(see the answer key)

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