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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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Part 1: Lightness and Weight
Part 2: Soul and Body
Part 3: Words Misunderstood
Part 4: Soul and body
Part 5: Lightness and Weight
Part 6: The Grand March
Part 7: Karenin's Smile
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Tomas
Tereza
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Franz
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Part 1: Lightness and Weight
Part 2: Soul and Body
Part 3: Words Misunderstood
Part 4: Soul and body
Part 5: Lightness and Weight
Part 6: The Grand March
Part 7: Karenin's Smile
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1
of 5
The 1968 Prague Spring was a movement in favor of which of the following?
Human rights
Soviet control
Anarchy
Government overthrow
2
of 5
What happened to Kundera as a result of the success of his first novel?
Named a national hero
Became a professor
Persecuted as dissident
Offered a political position
3
of 5
In 1975, Kundera moved where?
Prague
Madrid
Geneva
Paris
4
of 5
As a result of his individual (versus political) reaction to communism, Kundera is often compared to what other novelist?
Hemingway
Tolstoy
Pirandello
Nabokov
5
of 5
Which of the following does Kundera associate with totalitarianism regimes?
Communism
Kitsch
Fascism
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