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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 knows the woman.
(b) Ludvik knows the woman's younger sister.
(c) Ludvik doesn't know this woman.
(d) Ludvik dislikes this woman.

2. Where was Ludvik summoned the day after he returned to his post at University in his third year?
(a) Stalin's Command Center.
(b) The Party Pentagon.
(c) The Station of the League of Students.
(d) The District Party Headquarters.

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

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

5. When Marketa and Ludvik reunite at University, how does Marketa act?
(a) She tells Ludvik she has another lover.
(b) She ignores Ludvik completely.
(c) Exactly the same.
(d) She professes her love for Ludvik.

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 the narrator of the first section of the novel?

3. What favor does Ludvik ask of Kostka?

4. What was Helena doing at the age of eighteen?

5. How does Ludvik find Kostka's flat?

(see the answer key)

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