The Book of Laughter and Forgetting True or False

1. "It is a death sweetly bluish, like nonbeing. Because nonbeing is an infinite emptiness and empty space is blue and there is nothing more beautiful and more soothing than blue" (VI.12.7). What do Kundera and Tamina think of this version of death? -> They hate it because it's a lie. Death is hard work.
2. "...she has many friends: men are not afraid she wants to marry them, and women have no fear she is seeking to deprive them of a husband" (II.3.4). Who is Kundera talking about here? -> Tamina.
3. "Men have always been divided into two categories. Worshipers of women, otherwise known as poets, and misogynists, or, more accurately, gynophobes" (V."Boccaccio".5). What is a "misogynist," according to Kundera's Boccaccio? -> Women who hate women.
4. "He told everyone that he had broken permanently with his father, a well-off farmer. He spat, he said, on the age-old rural tradition of attachment to land and to property" (I.13.5). Why does Mirek do this? -> He's trying to impress the Communist Party.
5. "...every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream, but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract" (II.6.11). Whose relationship is Kundera talking about? -> Hugo and Tamina's.

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