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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six: Kostka.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator doing when part four begins?
(a) Eating.
(b) Writing.
(c) Working.
(d) Daydreaming.

2. What was Lucie caught stealing before she left Ostrava?
(a) Clothes from a laundry.
(b) Milk from a shepherd.
(c) Flowers from a graveyard.
(d) Food from children.

3. What emotion alarms the narrator of part five just before meeting Helena?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Nervousness.
(c) Dread.
(d) Excitement.

4. What does Ludvik's group, marked by their black insignia, work on every morning?
(a) The hospitals.
(b) The sewers.
(c) The mines.
(d) The roads.

5. Even though Ludvik senses Helena is ready to consummate their affair, he decides to take his time. What do they do first?
(a) Played cards.
(b) Drink vodka.
(c) Read poetry.
(d) Drink more rye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ludvik and Helena have lunch after she arrives in Moravia?

2. How much longer was Kostka at University after Ludvik was expelled?

3. How does the narrator of part five kill time before meeting Helena?

4. Ludvik and Kostka sit in Kostka's flat before he has to go back to the hospital and chat over what?

5. After a separation in which Marketa fares far better than Ludvik, he sends her something to hurt her. What is it that he sends Marketa?

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