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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 is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?
(a) A longing to be as beautiful as her mother
(b) A yearning to physically fit into society
(c) A longing to be a body unlike other bodies
(d) A desire to be admired by men

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

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

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

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

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 did Tereza visit Sabina's studio?

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

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

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

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