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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the student feel as he returns home?
(a) Confused.
(b) Dejected.
(c) Fully restored.
(d) Inferior.
2. To what does the student manipulate Kristyna into agreeing?
(a) To return that same day back to her home.
(b) To go to bed with him.
(c) To getting her own motel room.
(d) To his going to the Writer's Club meeting.
3. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?
(a) Tells her he is leaving the country.
(b) Asks her if she will marry him.
(c) Goes back on his promise to go to Prague.
(d) Tells her he is married.
4. What is graphomania?
(a) A way of writing in cuneiform.
(b) The obsessive drive to write a book.
(c) The way they illustrate comics.
(d) The need for the perfect pen.
5. Where does Tamina work?
(a) As a secretary to the Minister of Justice.
(b) We are not told.
(c) As a nanny to one of the big Communist Bosses.
(d) As a waitress at a cafe.
6. What happens to Tamina's case in the police files?
(a) It is expunged from the records.
(b) It is still being actively worked.
(c) It is eventually forgotten.
(d) It is solved.
7. Why doesn't the memory of Tamina's husband torment her any longer?
(a) She is in love with Raphael.
(b) She is in a place of no history.
(c) She has had a stroke.
(d) She has had a lobotomy.
8. Why is Tamina thought to be a good listener?
(a) She always seems to understand what someone is saying.
(b) She does not interrupt others with stories about herself.
(c) She nods constantly.
(d) She looks people straight in the eye.
9. Where is Bibi going for the summer?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Prague.
(d) Poland.
10. What happens to Tamina eventually?
(a) She has no memory of her prior life.
(b) She becomes a mother to all the children.
(c) She is killed by a young man.
(d) She marries Raphael.
11. How does Tamina spend her time?
(a) Working.
(b) Recreating her husband and their time together.
(c) Writing letters to get her husband released from prison.
(d) Taking care of her other children.
12. How does Hubl say you can "liquidate its people"?
(a) He is not sure how to do it, just that it is necessary.
(b) By killing them one by one.
(c) By indoctrinating their children.
(d) By erasing their memory of their previous culture.
13. What is one condition that must occur for graphomania to take place?
(a) The people must be oppressed so they are motivated to speak out.
(b) The people in the society must have an elevated sense of well-being.
(c) The people must be angry and want change.
(d) There has to be a lot of left-handed people.
14. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
(a) Randolph.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Robert.
(d) Gabriel.
15. Who does Kristyna meet one day?
(a) A man who offers her a chance to act on stage.
(b) Her sister who had been kidnapped years ago.
(c) A student on vacation.
(d) Her biological mother.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tamina think the ostriches are doing?
2. Why do the police go to Tamina's apartment?
3. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
4. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
5. Why don't the student and Kristyna consummate their relationship?
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