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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 5 "A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tereza's mother appear to be casting off with her immodesty?
(a) Her daughter Tereza's modest ways
(b) Youth and beauty
(c) An old fashioned mentality
(d) The communist regime's ways

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What did Tereza remember most of Dubeck's speech, the one he made after his return from Moscow?

4. After she returned home to her small Czech town, how did Tereza re-enter Tomas's life?

5. For Sabina, what did the bowler hat NOT represent?

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