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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. Returning home from the police station, what does Jaromil find?
2. What happens when a classmate asks Jaromil about the redhead?
3. What boosts Jaromil's confidence before the poetry reading at the police academy?
4. How old is Jaromil when he catches pneumonia?
5. What contest does the party guest suggest to Jaromil?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the girl visits the middle-aged man, she is wearing winter clothes. What does this detail reveal about the timing in the story?
2. What arguments do Jaromil and the redhead have concerning their families? How does this illustrate Jaromil's juvenile mindset?
3. How does the author insert his own thoughts into Part 6, Chapter 1? What effect does this have on this entire part?
4. What is Maman's opinion about the redheaded girl? How does her reaction perpetuate the cycle of her own relationship with Jaromil?
5. 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?
6. After a period of estrangement from Maman, why is Jaromil ready to make peace with her? How do the two of them have very different perceptions of this reconciliation?
7. Why does Jaromil want to undress the redhead? How does this show his inadequate understanding of relationships?
8. How does Jaromil feel while he is visiting the janitor's son at the police station? What does this say about his personal growth?
9. What happens when Jaromil recites his poems to the audience of police members? How does this compare to the hopes he has had?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jaromil's father is his greatest friend (Part I, Chapter 4, pg 21). What might his mother have felt during that time? How does this weaken the close bond she has had with him before?
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance in very few names? Who has a name and what importance does this convey?
Essay Topic 3
Xavier's woman lover looks like an aquatic being (Part 2, Chapter 4, pg 73). What are the ties to Jaromil's perception of Magda? What importance does water have in the perception of beautiful women? What connections are there to ice?
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