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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Marketa begin to write her mother-in-law?
(a) When her mother-in-law's husband dies.
(b) When her mother-in-law begins to write Marketa.
(c) When they need money.
(d) She does not write her mother-in-law.

2. Where does Eva meet Marketa?
(a) At a ski resort.
(b) At college.
(c) In a spa.
(d) At a political rally.

3. Who is fired because of Kundera?
(a) The editor of the magazine where Kundera is working.
(b) His father.
(c) His philosophy professor.
(d) His best friend.

4. When did Marketa dislike her mother-in-law?
(a) When the mother-in-law lived with them after her husband dies.
(b) When Marketa and Karel lived with his parents.
(c) Never.
(d) When her mother-in-law used to try to control how the grandchildren were raised.

5. Why is Mirek driving to see Zdena?
(a) To retrieve some old love letters.
(b) To give her a present.
(c) To ask her to marry him.
(d) To kill her.

6. What do Karel and Eva think is important to Marketa?
(a) That she be allowed to participate in the sexual relationship between Karel and Eva.
(b) To believe Eva is in love with her.
(c) To believe that Eva is more interested in her than in Karel.
(d) To believe that she is in control of the relationship between Karel and Eva.

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

8. What does Mama forget?
(a) The last line of the poem.
(b) To bring her toothbrush.
(c) To pack her pajamas.
(d) To cook the pasta.

9. Who addresses the Czech people?
(a) Klement Gottwald.
(b) Marketa.
(c) Mirek.
(d) Zedena.

10. Who is discussing the play "Rhinoceros" ?
(a) Madame Raphael's political cell.
(b) No one.
(c) Madame Raphael's class.
(d) Madame Raphael's support group.

11. What do Eva, Marketa and Karel frequently do?
(a) Plan political rallies.
(b) Attend the theater together.
(c) Have sex together.
(d) Go skiing.

12. What upsets Marketa about her mother-in-law?
(a) She does not leave on the day Marketa requested.
(b) That she insists that she come to see her grandson.
(c) That the breakup of the marriage is all Marketa's fault.
(d) That she will not stay in the hotel.

13. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?
(a) It gives her the perspective to be able to forgive the mother-in-law.
(b) It makes her more determined to steer clear of her mother-in-law.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It softens Marketa's perspective on her mother-in-law.

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

15. Why does Clementis give Gottwald a fur cap?
(a) To make him look ridiculous.
(b) To conceal who he is.
(c) His head is bare and it is very cold.
(d) To make him look like Marketa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama later say about Eva?

2. Why is Mirek ashamed of Zdena?

3. What happens when Mirek leaves Zdena's place?

4. What is revealed?

5. For whom does Kundera give a personal astrological reading?

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