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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel was Tereza reading when she went to visit Tomas?
(a) War and Peace
(b) The Scarlett Letter
(c) Anna Karenina
(d) Pride and Prejudice

2. What affect did the first week of the Russian occupation have on Tereza?
(a) Put her into a depression
(b) Brought her closest she'd ever been to happiness
(c) Caused her to tremble out of fear
(d) Led her to want to leave Prague for good

3. What does Tereza's mother appear to be casting off with her immodesty?
(a) Her daughter Tereza's modest ways
(b) Youth and beauty
(c) The communist regime's ways
(d) An old fashioned mentality

4. What is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?
(a) A longing to be as beautiful as her mother
(b) A desire to be admired by men
(c) A longing to be a body unlike other bodies
(d) A yearning to physically fit into society

5. What did Tereza suffer as a result of Tomas's affairs?
(a) Upset stomachs
(b) vomitting
(c) Nightmares
(d) Headaches

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose quartet is based on the following two motifs: "Must it be?" "It must be."

2. Which was NOT one of the fortuities that gave Tereza the courage to leave home and change her fate?

3. Where did Tomas and Tereza meet?

4. What was the one thing that Tereza's mother did not allow to exist in her home?

5. Why did Tereza's mother marryTereza's father

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