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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. What is Helena's favorite word?

2. What was the narrator of part five doing just before the narration begins?

3. What emotion alarms the narrator of part five just before meeting Helena?

4. What is engraved on the silver pendant Helena wears?

5. What event brought Ludvik and Kostka together for their first conversation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jaroslav imagine his mother?

2. Describe the difference between Ludvik and Kostka's perceived relationship, according to Kostka.

3. How is Jaroslav's planning developing for the upcoming Ride of the Kings progressing?

4. What makes Kostka afraid of women?

5. How does Kostka justify leaving his wife and child?

6. What happened to the historical music and literature of Czech nation in the nineteenth century?

7. What does Christian living mean to Kostka?

8. How does Ludvik's memory of Helena differ from Helena in reality, upon their meeting in Moravia?

9. Describe Jaroslav's dream at the beginning of part four.

10. Describe Kostka's analysis of Ludvik - what does Kostka feel Ludvik's deepest motives are?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What brings Ludvik back to folk music? What does this return symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Jaroslav and his family.

Essay Topic 3

Outline Kostka's belief system and the major fallacies reflected in the life he leads.

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