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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zemanek and Helena were together for nearly two years when what happened?
(a) Zemanek asked her to marry him.
(b) Zemanek was called before a committee and kept out of Helena's way.
(c) Helena was called before a committee and kept out of Zemanek's way.
(d) Helena became pregnant.

2. How does Zdena feel about Zemanek?
(a) She is impartial to him.
(b) She worships him.
(c) She loathes him.
(d) She likes him enough to get by.

3. How does Ludvik describe himself at university, in his second year?
(a) A man of many faces.
(b) A man at one with the regime.
(c) A man in love with one woman.
(d) A man with one goal.

4. Ludvik, as the woman giving him a shave soaps his face, slips into what?
(a) A nap.
(b) A fantasy.
(c) A lie.
(d) A conversation.

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

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

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

8. When Ludvik sits down to have a shave, what does he do?
(a) Check his appearance in the mirror.
(b) Talk to the girl shaving him right away.
(c) Avoid the mirror and look at the ceiling.
(d) Start a conversation with the man in the chair next to him.

9. What does Helena claim she is looking for?
(a) A new political party.
(b) New ideals.
(c) Love.
(d) New dreams.

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

11. What did Zemanek say to Helena in the heat of an argument when their daughter was five?
(a) They married out of Party discipline.
(b) He was sorry they were fighting and he loves her.
(c) That he believed Zdena wasn't his daughter.
(d) Everyone loves in different ways.

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

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

14. According to Helena, what does Zemanek live on?
(a) Applause.
(b) His morals.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Drink.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie does Ludvik end up watching in his pursuit of the person he is following on his weekend alone?

2. What does Ludvik think of this woman's voice who shaved him?

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

4. When does Helena believe her co-workers started disliking her?

5. Ludvik decides to leave his hotel shortly after arriving for the first time. What does he want to do?

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