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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?
(a) Pretend Eva is Marketa's cousin.
(b) Come another time.
(c) Talk to the director of the coop to stop the police searches.
(d) Stay at the hotel near them.

2. After leaving the ring, what does Kundera do?
(a) He moves to Budapest.
(b) He moves to the USSR.
(c) He wanders the streets outside of the rings of celebrants.
(d) He defects to Britian.

3. What was happening in 1948 in Kundera's life?
(a) He is involved in the political parties of his time and "danced in a ring."
(b) He learns he has leukemia.
(c) He begins to doubt the efficacy of communism.
(d) His wife dies in childbirth.

4. What happens to Madame Raphael, Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) They are arrested.
(b) They go off laughing together.
(c) They are shot.
(d) They dance and then rise into the sky like angels.

5. Why do students dance in a ring?
(a) For flexibility and exercise.
(b) It is a figure of speech; they don't actually dance.
(c) So no one is behind any one else for safety.
(d) To celebrate a variety of things.

6. Who is waiting for Mirek when he arrives back home?
(a) His mother.
(b) The police.
(c) Zdena.
(d) His best friend.

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

8. What will happen to the record of Clementis' life?
(a) It will be distorted.
(b) It will be made into a movie.
(c) It will be expunged from history.
(d) It will be studied by every school child.

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

10. Who does Karel picture in his mind when he, Marketa and Eva are together later?
(a) No one.
(b) The woman he was just speaking to on the phone.
(c) His last wife.
(d) His mama's friend.

11. Who are Michelle and Gabrielle?
(a) Two cousins from Prague.
(b) Two students in Madame Raphael's class.
(c) Two co-conspirators in Madame Raphael's political cell.
(d) Two women in Madame Raphael's support group.

12. What does Karel do on the phone?
(a) Arrange another sexual liaison.
(b) Call a nursing home for his mother.
(c) Talk to his publisher.
(d) Talk to Eva's husband.

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

14. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?
(a) The person commits suicide.
(b) The person defects to the West.
(c) The person has Kundera arrested.
(d) The person becomes nicer and softer.

15. What happens when Mirek stops to have his car checked?
(a) The transmission is no good.
(b) His tire is flat and can't be replaced.
(c) He learns he has a blown head gasket.
(d) The attendant is not happy about serving him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kundera feel about the dancing?

2. What does Kundera have the urge to do?

3. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?

4. Why is Mirek ashamed of Zdena?

5. How do Marketa and Eva get along at first?

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