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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 Voltaire invite the student?
(a) To hear a poetry reading at a pub.
(b) A meeting of the Writer's Club.
(c) To his home for dinner.
(d) To watch a reenactment of independence day.

2. Why don't the student and Kristyna consummate their relationship?
(a) A lack of trust.
(b) Miscommunication.
(c) Because Kristyna is married.
(d) Because the student changes his mind again.

3. What is the phrase Kundera's father says to everything after he loses his memory?
(a) That's great.
(b) Stranger things have happened.
(c) Strange that it is true.
(d) That's strange.

4. Who are two other people Kundera blurs the historic moments of?
(a) No others.
(b) Kafta and Svaboda.
(c) Kundera and Mirek.
(d) Mirek and Kafta.

5. Why does Hugo take Tamina to the zoo?
(a) To impress her.
(b) To teach her about drawing birds.
(c) To show her a new exhibit he had planned.
(d) To show her a new monkey species that was found.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kristyna?

2. What is the only picture Tamina has of her husband?

3. What do Tamina and her husband leave at her Stepmother's house?

4. What is graphomania?

5. What happens to Tamina eventually?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Czechs and litost related in Kundera's opinion?

2. Where does the student go the day before Kristyna arrives and how does this affect the interaction between Kristyna and the student?

3. How is Kundera's father's attempt to understand Beethoven undertaken by Kundera?

4. What character's life is again addressed in part 6 and how is her life dismissed in a sense?

5. Who is Kristyna?

6. What is the relationship of litost to romantic love in general and specifically in relation to Kristyna and the student?

7. Briefly describe a few of the most salient points about Tamina.

8. What is the meaning of the word litost?

9. How is Tamina's situation where Raphael takes her similar to her husband's situation just before he dies?

10. Discuss what graphomania is and how it is used in the context of this chapter.

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