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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movie does Ludvik end up watching in his pursuit of the person he is following on his weekend alone?
(a) In the Court of Labor.
(b) Court of Honor
(c) The Honor of Labor
(d) Labor and You: A Story of Honor

2. Who at Helena's work station likes her?
(a) All the girls.
(b) Her boss.
(c) Jindra.
(d) Pavel.

3. What was Helena doing at the age of eighteen?
(a) In the gallows.
(b) Espionage.
(c) Raising her child.
(d) Schoolwork.

4. What happened to Zemanek and Helena after the demonstration in Old Town Square?
(a) They decided to meet up after returning to University.
(b) They held hands and roamed through Prague.
(c) They joined the riot.
(d) They parted ways.

5. Helena believes that there is no split between what?
(a) Husband and wife.
(b) Public and private selves.
(c) Politics and morals.
(d) Church and state.

6. Where is Marketa sent, at the end of her first year at university?
(a) A month in Paris to study Marxism.
(b) A two-week Party training session.
(c) A two-year trip to study plants.
(d) Italy for a week to scout for new leadership.

7. When did Helena realize she was in love with Zemanek?
(a) At a meeting for the Youth League.
(b) After they married.
(c) While visiting Italy with their ensemble.
(d) On the anniversary of the Liberation in Old Town Square.

8. What does the narrator do at the beginning of part three?
(a) Go wandering.
(b) Go to the hospital.
(c) Meet a lover.
(d) Have dinner.

9. What did Zemanek say to Helena in the heat of an argument when their daughter was five?
(a) They married out of Party discipline.
(b) He was sorry they were fighting and he loves her.
(c) Everyone loves in different ways.
(d) That he believed Zdena wasn't his daughter.

10. What was the last thing Ludvik said after leaving his meeting with the board?
(a) "Honor to labor."
(b) "Honor to justice."
(c) "People for labor."
(d) "Justice to people."

11. When did Ludvik meet Marketa?
(a) Around 1940.
(b) Around 1958.
(c) Around 1945
(d) Around 1948.

12. Once Ludvik lost the rights to his University studies he expected to be notified of what compulsory service?
(a) Military.
(b) Sanitation.
(c) Education.
(d) Construction.

13. Where does Kostka live?
(a) A bachelor flat in a new complex.
(b) He has a room in the hospital.
(c) In the same hotel Ludvik is staying in.
(d) A two-room flat in another town 30 miles away.

14. What organ does Helena have trouble with, under the slightest bit of exertion?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her brain.
(c) Her lungs.
(d) Her stomach.

15. 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?
(a) A poem in a letter.
(b) A photograph of Stalin.
(c) A joke on a postcard.
(d) A joke in letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a student, where did Ludvik hold an important post?

2. How much money does Ludvik pull out of his pocket to pay the woman for his shave?

3. Who is the narrator of the part two?

4. Where do Helena and Ludvik go after running around the woods and Helena sings, "Oh brightly shines the sun in our garden..."?

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

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