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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At the end of her first year at university, Marketa is sent away by who?
(a) The Comrades.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her professor.
(d) Ludvik.

4. What was the last thing Ludvik said after leaving his meeting with the board?
(a) "Honor to labor."
(b) "Honor to justice."
(c) "People for labor."
(d) "Justice to people."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the narrator's hometown?

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

4. Helena claims she would do anything to save her marriage. Why?

5. Where is the man Ludvik asks for at the booth at the gate of the hospital?

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