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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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The 1968 Prague Spring was a movement in favor of which of the following?
Human rights
Soviet control
Anarchy
Government overthrow
2
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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
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In 1975, Kundera moved where?
Prague
Madrid
Geneva
Paris
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As a result of his individual (versus political) reaction to communism, Kundera is often compared to what other novelist?
Hemingway
Tolstoy
Pirandello
Nabokov
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Which of the following does Kundera associate with totalitarianism regimes?
Communism
Kitsch
Fascism
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