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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ludvik meet Marketa?
(a) Around 1940.
(b) Around 1945
(c) Around 1958.
(d) Around 1948.

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

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

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

5. When Ludvik finally goes before the plenary session of the Department of Natural Sciences, how many people speak for him?
(a) Two, Marketa and Zemanek.
(b) One, only Marketa.
(c) None.
(d) Three - Marketa, Zemanek and Pavel.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ludvik's meeting with the board he is prompted by a Communist friend to go see who?

2. The day following their one-day reunion, Ludvik phones Marketa. What happens?

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

4. Once Ludvik lost the rights to his University studies he expected to be notified of what compulsory service?

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

(see the answer key)

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