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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 3 "A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped Tereza better understand photography?
(a) Sabina
(b) Her mother
(c) Tomas
(d) The engineer

2. What did Tereza's mother forbid Tereza to do?
(a) Spend time alone in her room
(b) Lock the bathroom door
(c) Go out with friends
(d) Live with Tomas

3. Tereza has a dream where she marches around a pool of naked women who are overjoyed by their sameness. What does this part of her dream represent?
(a) The desire to be as strong as other women
(b) Her need to escape her mother's world, where all bodies are equal
(c) The fear that once she has an affair, she will resemble Tomas's other women
(d) Her fear that one day Tomas will not recognize her from among his many women

4. Sabina did not share Franz's passion for...
(a) Reading
(b) Poetry
(c) Music
(d) Travelling

5. What did Tereza do with half of the undeveloped roll of films?
(a) Hid them from the Russians
(b) Gave them to Sabina
(c) Destroyed them
(d) Gave them to foreign journalists

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened once Tomas followed Tereza to Prague?

2. What novel was Tereza reading when she went to visit Tomas?

3. When they were living in Zunich, what incident caused Tereza to pack her suitcase, take Karenin and leave for Prague while Tomas was at work?

4. What did Franz do during sex that Sabina disliked?

5. In Tereza's eyes, what did books represent?

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