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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. Why wouldn't the magazine editor publish Tereza's photographs?
(a) They were vulgar for his taste
(b) He did not find them to be good enough
(c) They were outdated
(d) They put his magazine in danger

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

3. What did Karenin hate?
(a) Change
(b) Other animals
(c) Cold weather
(d) Walks

4. Why did Tomas oppose Tereza visiting her mother when she heard she had cancer?
(a) He discovered her mother was lying.
(b) He feared Tereza was using this as an excuse to leave him
(c) He knew Tereza was lying.
(d) He disliked her mother and worried she'd cause trouble between him and Tereza

5. What did Tereza try to see herself through?
(a) Her childhood
(b) Her faith
(c) Her body
(d) Tomas's love

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tereza refuse the job offer as photographer?

2. What did Tomas initially feel when he discovered Tereza had left for Prague?

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

4. What may have attributed to the female puppy, Karenin, falling in love wtih Tereza rather than Tomas?

5. What would have caused Tereza to do anything for her mother?

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