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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Angels.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Marketa do for the Easter weekend?
(a) Invites her mother-in-law to visit.
(b) Goes to church for the first time in many years.
(c) Goes to Paris.
(d) Goes to visit her mother-in-law.

3. What does Marketa not know about Eva and Karel?
(a) That Eva wants Karel to encourage Marketa to leave him for her.
(b) That they are both in love with a third woman.
(c) That they plan to eventually marry.
(d) That they know each other before Marketa meets Eva.

4. Who is Kristyna?
(a) An elderly babushka.
(b) A nun who teachers Kundera.
(c) A friend of the author's.
(d) A 30-year-old woman who is married to a butcher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does litost mean?

2. What does Tamina do one day?

3. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?

4. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?

5. What does Mama later say about Eva?

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