The Unbearable Lightness of Being Test | Final Test - Medium

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Tereza's dream, what did Karenin give birth to?
(a) two rolls and a bee
(b) a cow and a pig
(c) rolls, milk and butter
(d) bees and honey

2. What desire led to Tomas's pursuit of women?
(a) accumulation of different experiences
(b) power
(c) pleasure
(d) possession of the world

3. In Part 6, Chapter 11, who does Sabina claim is her enemy?
(a) kitsch
(b) injustice
(c) communism
(d) Czech immigrants

4. What helped ease Tereza's anxiety when she entered the engineer's house?
(a) Listening to Beethoven
(b) Seeing he had book shelves
(c) Drinking a glass of wine
(d) Having a cup of soup

5. How did Tomas feel after the petition was published?
(a) he questioned whether or not he should have signed
(b) he was glad he had not signed
(c) he wished he had signed
(d) he considered writing an article about the petition

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one thing Tomas associated the words "helping people" with?

2. What did Sabina rebel agains?

3. In Part 5, Chapter 28, on their way back to Prague, what did Tereza brood about?

4. In Part 5, chapter 19, what did the editor say to Tomas when he approached him?

5. What did Tomas feel the first day he reported to the window washer job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Kundera writes, whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. What does he mean by the word "totalitarian?"

2. All her life Sabina had proclaimed kitsch her enemy. But, Kundera asks, hasn't she in fact been carrying it with her?

3. When talking to his son, Simon, what is Tomas's attitude about the article he had written?

4. After making love to the engineer, what does Tereza desire to do?

5. What does Franz realize at the end of his trip to Cambodia?

6. What is at stake if Tomas does not retract the article he wrote?

7. What does the article about the dogs being summarily shot in Russia signify for Tereza?

8. What causes Tereza to suspect the engineer was sent by the secret police?

9. What is "kitsch?"

10. In Part 5, Chapter 17, what episode both amuses and horrifies Tomas, proving that he is as tired mentally as he is physically?

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