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Task Two: One Long Text 7-9

7. What were the key dates of and reasons for Kunderas joining and leaving the Commu-nist Party of Czechoslovakia?

For this question there are 4 pieces of information to find.For each of the four pieces of information write no more than 15 words.

Joined 1948 enthusiasm and/or experiences from Second World War .

Expelled 1950 anti-party activities

Rejoined 1956 softening of party line

Expelled 1970 conflict with hardliners

8. By what literary means did Kundera in his poems and stories present communist ideas to make them more appealing to ordinary readers?

For this question there are 3 pieces of information to find.For each of the four pieces of information write no more than 15 words.

Associating communism with home, cosiness and reassurance.

Portraying ideas through (fictional) individual experience/human relationships.

Transforming communists into mythical heroes.

9. What did Kundera focus on after he left Czechoslovakia?

For this question there are 1 pieces of information to find.For each of the four pieces of information write no more than 15 words.

parables on bourgeois French life