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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happened to Franz when he started living alone in a tiny flat?
2. What does Tereza's mother appear to be casting off with her immodesty?
3. What was Sabina's views of modern music?
4. After the encounter with the immigrants, which stirred her up quite a bit, how did Sabina react when she saw Franz sitting on a couchette?
5. How did Tomas avoid falling in love with the women he became intimate with?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Tomas ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggression of love?
2. Describe Franz's love for Sabina.
3. What were books for Tereza?
4. What did Tereza feel when she stood naked in front of Sabina as Sabina photographed her?
5. What did Tereza write in the letter that she'd left for Tomas in Zurich?
6. Describe Marie-Claude's personality.
7. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what did Tomas struggle with after Tereza returned to her small Czech town?
8. What argument does Tereza use when she rejects the offer to take photos of a cactus?
9. How did Tereza react to her mother's phone call telling her she had cancer and only 5 months to live?
10. What type of daughter was Tereza? What was her lifestyle like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kundera has an entire section about misunderstood words between Franz and Sabina.
1. Was misunderstandings of words what led to Franz's and Sabina's break-up or were they simply not meant to be together? Cite 3 examples that support your theory.
2. had Sabina and Franz really been in love, would there have been a misunderstanding of words? Cite examples to prove your theory.
3. In Franz's case, was there a misunderstanding of words or a misunderstanding of women? How did Franz's upbringing affect his personality? Cite 3 examples of how his upbringing influenced the relationships he ended up having with women.
Essay Topic 2
Choose one of the three options to write about:
1. Throughout The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the question of weight and lightness is often used to describe the reason behind a character's actions. Discuss which characters are pursuing lightness, which characters are more pursuing weight. Tomas, Tereza, Franz and Sabina.
2. Recurring dreams have a strong impact on Tereza. These dreams interpret her inner struggle with Tomas's affairs. Cite 3 dreams that were particularly frightening for Tereza.
3. Throughout The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera expresses quite a few observations about the Communist Regime and the people that oppose them. Cite 3 views that adrress those views.
Essay Topic 3
Choose one of the three options to write about:
1. Kandera compares the behavior of animals to that of humans. Cite 3 examples where Kandera compares animals to humans and discuss his views on this subject.
2. Kandera questions why humans don't have the selfless love that exists between people and animals. Tereza, for instance, has a better love for her dog than for Tomas. Cite 3 examples of how Tereza's love for her dog Karenin is better than her love for Tomas. What actions would have made her love unconditional?
3. Tereza treats the animals she comes across well. Would she have made a good mother? How do you think her childhood experience might have influenced her relationship with her children, had she had any? Would she have been a happier more fulfilled woman had she had children?
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