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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chaps. 4-6, pp. 204-225.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary reason that Xavier runs into danger ahead of his comrades?
(a) He wants to live in the exciting aura of death.
(b) He wants to show them that he is a man and worthy of their friendship.
(c) He would rather die in battle as die an old man.
(d) He wants to make up for losing the list that they wanted.

2. What is Jaromil's criterion for a true poem?
(a) It must sound poetic when it is recited.
(b) It must be read by someone other than the author.
(c) It must be able to stand apart from other poems.
(d) It must have an established form.

3. What was the dramatic action that led to the kiss between Jaromil and the university girl?
(a) Jaromil falling off the porch steps.
(b) The police light flashing through the trees.
(c) The girl dropping her briefcase.
(d) Running from the police.

4. Why do Jaromil's poems so often include death?
(a) He wants to be absorbed in something absolute and immense.
(b) Death is the only thing he does not yet understand
(c) He is gradually becoming suicidal.
(d) A violent streak is developing as he is treated cruelly by the world.

5. What makes Maman think that Jaromil is actually becoming like a son of Apollo?
(a) He values the Greek gods more than passing political trend.
(b) He has begun writing beautiful poems, not poems of death.
(c) His face is becoming beautiful and godlike rather than coarse.
(d) He has taken down the picture of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Jaromil, what determines a woman's beauty?

2. What distinctive piece of clothing does the old woman wear when she dances with Xavier?

3. In the opinion of Jaromil's uncle, why did the revolution occur?

4. What does Xavier find most compelling about the woman in the house?

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

(see the answer key)

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