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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 happened at night that caused Tereza to fear that time of the day?
(a) She had nightmares.
(b) She dwelt on Tomas's infidelities
(c) She trembled
(d) She dwelt on Tomas abandoning her

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

3. What did Tereza do with half of the undeveloped roll of films?
(a) Gave them to Sabina
(b) Hid them from the Russians
(c) Gave them to foreign journalists
(d) Destroyed them

4. What is the command Tomas uses on both Sabina and Tereza?
(a) Take off your clothes
(b) Strip
(c) Get undressed
(d) Get naked

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sabina do to get back at Tomas for looking at his watch while they made love?

2. 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?

3. In Tereza's eyes, what did books represent?

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

5. What is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?

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