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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 7 "A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The desire to be as strong as other women
(b) The fear that once she has an affair, she will resemble Tomas's other women
(c) Her fear that one day Tomas will not recognize her from among his many women
(d) Her need to escape her mother's world, where all bodies are equal

2. For Sabina, what did the bowler hat NOT represent?
(a) Reminder of the men whom she'd loved
(b) Memento of her father
(c) Reminder of a forgotten grandfather
(d) A sentimental object while she was abroad

3. What did Sabina like to do when she felt low?
(a) Walk through cemetaries
(b) Walk through gardens
(c) Attend mass
(d) Take a long walk

4. 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) Seeing Tereza talk to a stranger
(c) Noticing Tereza flirt with a colleague
(d) Seeing her leaning against a colleague's shouldes as she talked to him

5. What did Tereza remember most of Dubeck's speech, the one he made after his return from Moscow?
(a) His words which carried much humiliation
(b) His courageous tone
(c) The trembling of his voice
(d) The awful pauses in the middle of his sentences

Short Answer Questions

1. Sabina understood Franz's...

2. What was Sabina's views of modern music?

3. What was Tereza training for since childhood?

4. At the party, what did Marie-Claude call Sabina's ceramic pendant?

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

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