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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. In what status does Tamina leave Bohemia?
(a) Legally.
(b) Pending citizenship.
(c) As a non-citizen.
(d) Illegally.
2. What is more valuable to Kristyna than her relationship with the student?
(a) Meeting great minds.
(b) The book with the inscription.
(c) The discussions she has with the student.
(d) Her memories of the Club meeting.
3. How is the student when he returns to his Writer's Club?
(a) Feeling really great.
(b) Full of inspiration.
(c) Fully immersed in his litost.
(d) Feeling rejected.
4. What does Tamina find within herself?
(a) A tendency to wander mentally.
(b) A treasured silence.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Anger like she has never known.
5. What does Hugo do after sleeping with Tamina?
(a) Tells her he is leaving the country.
(b) Goes back on his promise to go to Prague.
(c) Tells her he is married.
(d) Asks her if she will marry him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Husak desire?
2. Why does Hugo take Tamina to the zoo?
3. Of what is Bibi convinced?
4. What is the man's name who drives off with Tamina in a red sports car?
5. How is the student recognized?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Tamina's eventual suicide symbolic?
2. What does Tamina ask Bibi to get for her in Prague and why does Tamina make the request?
3. What happens to permanently silence Tamina?
4. How is Kundera's father's attempt to understand Beethoven undertaken by Kundera?
5. Explain who Tamina is and the significance of how Kundera describes her.
6. Who is Kristyna?
7. What is the relationship of litost to romantic love in general and specifically in relation to Kristyna and the student?
8. What character's life is again addressed in part 6 and how is her life dismissed in a sense?
9. Who does Kristyna meet and what attracts her to this person?
10. What happens to Kundera's father in Part 6 and what do you think is the significance of Kundera writing about what happens to his father?
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