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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 was Sabina's views of modern music?
(a) She disliked it because it was difficult to dance to
(b) It lacked the rythm and beat that American music had
(c) It was loud noise masked as music
(d) She disliked it because it reminded her of the occupation

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

3. What made Tomas jealous at the bar, where he and Tereza met with friends to celebrate Tereza's promotion?
(a) Watching Tereza dance with a colleague
(b) Noticing Tereza flirt with a colleague
(c) Seeing Tereza talk to a stranger
(d) Seeing her leaning against a colleague's shouldes as she talked to him

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

5. What novel was Tereza reading when she went to visit Tomas?
(a) War and Peace
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Anna Karenina
(d) The Scarlett Letter

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, chapter 2, why were Sabina and Tomas touched by the sight of the bowler hat?

2. What was the one thing that Tereza's mother did not allow to exist in her home?

3. What did Franz try to create for the woman he had fallen in love with?

4. Sabina is stirred by her own...

5. After the encounter with the immigrants, which stirred her up quite a bit, how did Sabina react when she saw Franz sitting on a couchette?

(see the answer key)

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