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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police find?
(a) A baggie of drugs.
(b) The letters that Mirek kept between colleagues and friends.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Some illegal weapons.

2. When Kristyna arrives, where is the student?
(a) With a friend at a pub.
(b) He is in his apartment waiting for Kristyna.
(c) In class with someone referred to as Voltaire.
(d) He is in prison for distributing propaganda against the state.

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

4. What does the student debate with others?
(a) The political situation in Prague.
(b) The might of capitalism to overthrow communism.
(c) The right of Russia to be in Hungary.
(d) Poetry and philosophical tenets.

5. What year is it when the book opens?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tamina find within herself?

2. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?

3. How do Karel and Eva conspire?

4. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?

5. Why does the student settle into litost?

(see the answer key)

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