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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 did Tereza stay at Tomas's home for a week during her initial visit?
(a) She asked to stay, dreading returning to her mother's home
(b) She sprained her ankle
(c) He invited her to stay
(d) She caem down with the flu

2. Which was NOT one of the fortuities that gave Tereza the courage to leave home and change her fate?
(a) A necklace
(b) The book
(c) The number 6
(d) Beethoven

3. 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

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?
(a) Her need to escape her mother's world, where all bodies are equal
(b) The desire to be as strong as other women
(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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Tereza better understand photography?

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

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

4. Why did Tereza's mother marryTereza's father

5. Where did Tomas and Tereza meet?

(see the answer key)

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