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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Helena.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "May melancholy never taint my name."?
(a) Fucik.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Zedna.
(d) Moravia.

2. How is the local hospital in Moravia set up?
(a) One large building of concrete.
(b) A complex of buildings spread out.
(c) A small, sad shack.
(d) Two identical towers facing each other.

3. What does Helena like about Ludvik?
(a) He is melancholy and artistic.
(b) He is changable.
(c) He is normal and straightforward.
(d) He is strange and mysterious.

4. Ludvik overhears his neighbors in the hotel as soon as he is settled in. What does he learn about the neighbors?
(a) They are a large family of five.
(b) They are a small family of three.
(c) It is an old man traveling alone, talking to himself.
(d) They are a man and a woman.

5. What favor does Ludvik ask of Kostka?
(a) Ludvik asks Kostka to use his flat.
(b) Ludvik asks Kostka to lend him some clothes.
(c) Ludvik asks Kostka to buy him dinner.
(d) Ludvik asks Kostka to get him a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator of the first section of the novel?

2. Where does the narrator go after he leaves the town square?

3. When Ludvik sits down to have a shave, what does he do?

4. How does Ludvik feel about the differences between himself and Kostka?

5. What did Zemanek give Helena, his most favorite possession, as a gesture of reconciliation?

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