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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Lost Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kundera feel about the dancing?
(a) He is envious.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He thinks they are silly.
(d) He is despondent.

2. What is Zdena's response?
(a) Never will she give them to her.
(b) She is broke herself and has no money.
(c) She gave him a recommendation already and he blew it.
(d) Their child belongs with her mother.

3. What happens to Tamina after she sleeps with Hugo?
(a) She tells him to leave her home and never come back.
(b) She cries.
(c) She is silent permanently.
(d) She regains her voice and words.

4. Why does Mama get embarrassed?
(a) The others think the poem is incomprehensible.
(b) Because Karel corrects her.
(c) The others think the poem is dumb.
(d) Because Marketa corrects her.

5. Why is Kundera asked to leave the ring?
(a) For saying the wrong thing.
(b) For being clumsy.
(c) Because he told their secrets.
(d) He does not know why.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marketa tell her mother-in-law?

2. What is the subject of the poem?

3. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?

4. What is graphomania?

5. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?

(see the answer key)

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