The Unbearable Lightness of Being Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tereza claim to Tomas during their dance at the hotel's bar?
(a) from the start, she'd tried to get him away from Sabina
(b) she regretted having been so jealous all those years
(c) it was her fault he ended up in the country
(d) she is very happy they are finally together alone

2. What were Soviet films saturated with?
(a) political themes
(b) conflict and resolution
(c) incredible innocense and chastity
(d) family sagas

3. What did making love with the engineer in the absence of love do to Tereza?
(a) it confined her soul
(b) it restored her soul's sight
(c) it darkened her soul's sight
(d) it liberated her

4. When the engineer undressed Tereza, how did she respond?
(a) She asked him to stop
(b) Neutral
(c) She resisted him
(d) She assisted him

5. What did Tereza see in the crow's solitude and desolation?
(a) that the world was a cruel place
(b) that the world was a lonely place
(c) a reflection of her own fate
(d) that it was a good thing not to have children

6. When did Tomas realize the strange man was interrogating him?
(a) when he asked him very personal questions
(b) when he asked to meet him alone after work
(c) when he offered him a job with the government
(d) when he asked for the editor's name

7. What did the chief surgeon request of Tomas?
(a) to consider his colleagues when deciding whether or not to make the retraction
(b) not to make a public retraction of his past statement
(c) to consider his family when making a public retraction
(d) to make a public retraction of his past statement

8. What Czech text was written on the poster hanging on the editor's wall?
(a) End the Russian Occupation
(b) Free Intellectuals from Going into Prison
(c) Have you signed the Two Thousand Words?
(d) Help Politcal Prisoners

9. In Part 5, Chapter 7, Tomas recalls how after leaving Zurich for Prague, he felt he...
(a) was destined to always remain with Tereza
(b) had been led to Tereza by a chain of laughable coincidences
(c) did not really love Tereza
(d) he should have run away from his cage, not return to it

10. In Part 4, Chapter 22, Tereza's thoughts about the engineer are...
(a) She prays she will never see him again
(b) She wonders if she could leave Tomas for him
(c) She longs for him to come to the bar and invite her back
(d) She hopes she could find a way to forget about him

11. What was Tomas promised if he made the retraction?
(a) he could keep his job at the hospital
(b) he would be able to ransfer to another hospital
(c) he would get a promotion
(d) the letter will be filed away and never leaked out

12. What did Tomas feel the first day he reported to the window washer job?
(a) fear
(b) disappointment
(c) shock
(d) anxiety

13. Who were many of Tomas's private customers?
(a) people who needed medical help
(b) his women lovers
(c) his former patients
(d) old friends

14. What did Tereza fear it meant by the engineer never showing up again?
(a) He was sick minded and had lured her there to take pictures
(b) He was sent by the secret police
(c) He was sent by the drunk bald headed man
(d) He was sent by one of Tomas's women

15. In Part 5, Chapter 25, why was it impossible for Tereza and Tomas to spend the night at the little town outside of Prague?
(a) all its street signs were taken from Russian geography and history
(b) the hotel where they normally stayed resembled a miniature Russia
(c) the town's sign posts had disappeared because during the invasion people pulled them down
(d) the town was still very affected by the days of the Soviet invasion

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tomas say is much more important than sending petitions to a president?

2. The author describes kitsch as the absolute denial of

3. At the end of the novel, Tereza feels that if she really had loved Tomas with a great love, she would have...

4. What privilege did Tomas want to grant Karenin that was forbidden to humans?

5. Sabina liked America...

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