Life Is Elsewhere Test | Final Test - Hard

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Life Is Elsewhere Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 194 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many poets participate in the recitation?

2. While Jaromil is answering questions about love and socialism, what is he most conscious of?

3. What contest does the party guest suggest to Jaromil?

4. Why does the girl come to see the man rather than going home?

5. What question does the middle-aged woman have for the group of poets?

Short Essay Questions

1. In planning the documentary about Jaromil's life, what do Maman and Jaromil reveal about themselves? What do they reveal about their relationship?

2. What happens when Jaromil recites his poems to the audience of police members? How does this compare to the hopes he has had?

3. "Only a real poet knows how lonely it is inside the mirrored house of poetry" (Part 7, Chapter 1, pg 289). Where else does the reader see mirrors in the story, and how does this sentence relate to Jaromil's life?

4. Maman is disillusioned about the cinematography girl after the girl does not invite her to the party. How does this show the similarity between Maman and the girl?

5. "History does not always make a dramatic entrance, it often seeps through every-day life like dirty dishwater. In our story, History makes its appearance in the guise of underwear" (Part 5, Chapter 8, pg 239). What does this mean in the context of Jaromil's story?

6. How does the author insert his own thoughts into Part 6, Chapter 1? What effect does this have on this entire part?

7. As it is painfully revealed in Part 5, Chapters 4 - 6, why do Maman and Jaromil struggle to live together? What does this say about their relationship as mother and son?

8. Kundera says that the young person can be so loyally devoted to an idea because he believes in absolutes (Part 5, Chapter 6, pg 220). How does this fit with Jaromil's personality?

9. What are Jaromil's hopes for the two women in his life? What does this show about his understanding of both women?

10. When Jaromil is angry at the redhead for being fifteen minutes late, what change ensues in their relationship? How does this mark a turning point in Jaromil's development as a person?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the beautiful blond girl's death prefigure Jaromil's own death? How have both people been betrayed by Xavier?

Essay Topic 2

Does the story of Xavier's time in the yellow house border on the fantastic? What makes the story plausible and what makes it fantastical?

Essay Topic 3

What element causes Jaromil's death? How is this suited to his life? What does it mean that at the end he looked into his own face, and what horror is added in that moment?

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