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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ludvik and Helena have lunch after she arrives in Moravia?

2. What does the narrator of part five have for breakfast before meeting Helena?

3. What is the narrator doing when part four begins?

4. Where does Lucie's father live?

5. What is engraved on the silver pendant Helena wears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jaroslav's dream at the beginning of part four.

2. How does Jaroslav describe the "Communists of the time," after his first year at University?

3. How does Ludvik describe his first meeting with Helena?

4. What event called Kostka's Christianity into question by the administration at the University?

5. How is Jaroslav's planning developing for the upcoming Ride of the Kings progressing?

6. Describe Jaroslav's house.

7. How does Jaroslav imagine his mother?

8. How does Jaroslav feel about Ludvik when they see each other after Ludvik's sentence at Ostrava?

9. How does Kostka justify leaving his wife and child?

10. Why does Ludvik say that women don't talk about their husbands to their lovers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Miss. Broz come to symbolize to Ludvik? Zemanek?

Essay Topic 2

What does the Black Insignia signify to Ludvik? To the Party?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the symbolism inherent in the gifts Ludvik and Lucie give to each other during their time together in Ostrava.

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