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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 did Tomas initially feel when he discovered Tereza had left for Prague?
(a) Rage
(b) Bitterness
(c) Confusion
(d) Freedom

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

3. In Tereza's eyes, what did books represent?
(a) An emblem of the secret brotherhood
(b) A fair and just world
(c) A secret world of schools
(d) A world of intellectuals

4. What was the one thing that Tereza's mother did not allow to exist in her home?
(a) Love
(b) Loyalty
(c) Shame
(d) Respect

5. After she returned home to her small Czech town, how did Tereza re-enter Tomas's life?
(a) He couldn't stop thinking about her and called her to come visit
(b) She came to Prague on a business trip and stayed at his home
(c) They ran into each other at a mutual friend's house
(d) She phoned him from the railway station, claiming she was in Prague to find a job

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tomas avoid falling in love with the women he became intimate with?

2. Which one of the suitors did Tereza's mother choose when she was a young woman?

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

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

5. Why was Tomas attracted to Tereza?

(see the answer key)

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