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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mirek arrive?
(a) At Zdena's apartment.
(b) At his mother's apartment.
(c) At Zdena's country estate.
(d) At the border to the Ukraine.

2. Who does Kundera watch in the ring?
(a) Mirek.
(b) Eluard.
(c) Eva.
(d) Karel.

3. Why does Mirek initially become involved with Zdena?
(a) He does not have the confidence to approach a beautiful woman.
(b) His mother and her mother are close friends.
(c) He thought she was terribly witty.
(d) She is confident and is going places.

4. Who wrote RHINOCEROS?
(a) Eugene Ionesco.
(b) Eugene O'Neill.
(c) Lillian Helmet.
(d) William Tennessee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter elicit?

2. What happens to the person after the astrological reading?

3. What does Marketa ask Eva to do?

4. What does distance do for Marketa's attitude toward her mother-in-law?

5. Where does Kundera meet his former boss?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mirek want his old love letters back from Zdena and do you think his goal is possible?

2. How does Kundera's loss of his friends in the dancing circle affect him later?

3. What is remembered about Clementis?

4. What does Marketa contemplate doing with Eva near the end of the chapter?

5. What is the meaning of laughter in part 3?

6. What does Kundera say about laughter in response to Michelle and Gabrielle's laughter?

7. What do Kundera and other students do around 1948 and why? Do you think Kundera is speaking metaphorically or actuality.

8. What does this Kundera say about our collective past?

9. What is it that Marketa does not know about Eva and do you think Marketa would care at this point if she learned this?

10. Why do you think Marketa asks Eva to pretend she is Marketa's cousin?

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