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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chaps. 9-11, pp. 242-266.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Part 4, Chapter 1 begins with an anecdote about which poet?
(a) Jaromil.
(b) Lermontov.
(c) Valery.
(d) Rimbaud.

3. What is Jaromil's first long poem about?
(a) A man who suddenly realizes he is old.
(b) Young lovers who are reunited.
(c) The tragedy of love that is realized too late.
(d) Death that comes early for a young man.

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

5. How does Maman view her love for the young engineer?
(a) As her life's consuming passion.
(b) As a passing fling.
(c) As the preface for the love for her child.
(d) As a revolt against her parents' prosaic lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xavier do with the husband after his presence is discovered?

2. What are the four students singing about while on the train?

3. What is Jaromil's opinion of the redhead's family?

4. How does Maman destroy the intimacy between Jaromil and herself?

5. Why does Jaromil wait to show his poetry to the university girl?

(see the answer key)

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