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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: The Poet on the Run, pp. 161-181.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the famous poet booed by the audience after he reads a poem?
(a) The young audience simply identifies him with their parents.
(b) He is too old to be part of the future.
(c) His ideas are not Marxist enough.
(d) His words no longer relate to the world.

2. Why does Maman weep as the artist makes love to her?
(a) She is sad that she will never marry him.
(b) She is finally ashamed of the affair.
(c) She equates him to the Apollo statue, which she had wanted to be the model of Jaromil's personality.
(d) She knows that she is nothing more than the canvas for his ideas.

3. Why does Maman welcome her pregnancy?
(a) She thinks perhaps her husband will truly love her.
(b) She sees the family as a trio filling the universe.
(c) She sees it as the final step of independence from her parents.
(d) She has always wanted to be a mother.

4. In confiding to Jaromil, what does Maman say is her greatest love?
(a) Family life and stability.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Literature.

5. How does Jaromil treat his dates with girls?
(a) As the potential for sexual activity.
(b) As uncomfortable times he must endure.
(c) As rites of passage necessary for manhood.
(d) As exercises in conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is 1949 an interesting year for Czech youth?

2. What is the artist's opinion about Jaromil's drawings of headless women?

3. Why does the blond girl wear a beautiful white dress to the dance hall?

4. In the philosophy auditorium, what is the subject of the first poem recited?

5. What is Jaromil's first long poem about?

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