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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Mama.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama remember when they are all together?
(a) That Marketa had asked her to leave on Sunday.
(b) That Eva once visited Mama's house with Karel.
(c) A poem she once recited.
(d) Where she has met Eva before.

2. What is the subject of the poem?
(a) Grief.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Hope.

3. Where is Marketa's ten-year-old son on Easter?
(a) Away.
(b) With his aunt.
(c) At camp.
(d) She has no son.

4. To whom does Marketa introduce Eva?
(a) Marketa's son.
(b) Marketa's mother.
(c) Karel.
(d) Marketa's sister.

5. How do Karel and Eva conspire?
(a) To make it look as though Marketa is the first to meet Eva.
(b) To get Marketa to allow his mother to live with them.
(c) To leave Marketa and take Karel and Marketa's life savings.
(d) To get Marketa to think that she wants to leave Karel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?

2. What will happen to the record of Clementis' life?

3. What does Mirek say about Zdena's age?

4. Why does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?

5. What do Market and Karel tell each other when they move out of his parents' home?

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