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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six: Kostka.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's hometown?
(a) Moravia.
(b) Bratislava.
(c) Brno.
(d) Prague.

2. What was Helena doing at the age of eighteen?
(a) Raising her child.
(b) In the gallows.
(c) Schoolwork.
(d) Espionage.

3. How long did the wedding festivities last between Zemanek and Helena?
(a) Two days.
(b) Ten hours.
(c) Twenty-four hours.
(d) Three hours.

4. Who said, "May melancholy never taint my name."?
(a) Zedna.
(b) Moravia.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Fucik.

5. Where does Kostka live?
(a) He has a room in the hospital.
(b) A bachelor flat in a new complex.
(c) A two-room flat in another town 30 miles away.
(d) In the same hotel Ludvik is staying in.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much longer was Kostka at University after Ludvik was expelled?

2. Who gave Helena the pendant she wears?

3. Who at Helena's work station likes her?

4. What kind of headstone marked the grave of Ludvik's mother?

5. Helena believes that there is no split between what?

(see the answer key)

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