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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 23-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tereza propose to Sabina?
(a) That they try to be friends, despite everything
(b) That she leave Tomas for good
(c) To take nude pictures of her
(d) That she helps her find a job in photography

2. Which one of the suitors did Tereza's mother choose when she was a young woman?
(a) The wittiest
(b) The most manly
(c) The one who recited verses
(d) The most athletic

3. What happened to Tereza's father after her mother left him?
(a) He died in a car accident
(b) He left town
(c) He was imprisoned
(d) He remarried

4. What did Tereza do six to seven months after she and Tomas moved to Switzerland?
(a) Return to live with her mother
(b) Pay Sabina a visit
(c) Get a job as a photographer
(d) Return to Prague

5. How did Tomas avoid falling in love with the women he became intimate with?
(a) He would stop seeing a woman after 3 encounters
(b) He never spent the night with a woman
(c) He would not see any woman more than once a month
(d) He only met the women at their place

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was NOT one of the fortuities that gave Tereza the courage to leave home and change her fate?

2. Why wouldn't the magazine editor publish Tereza's photographs?

3. Why did Tereza visit Sabina's studio?

4. 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?

5. What did Tereza suffer as a result of Tomas's affairs?

(see the answer key)

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