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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the one thing that Tereza's mother did not allow to exist in her home?
(a) Love
(b) Respect
(c) Loyalty
(d) Shame

2. What did Franz say about New York?
(a) The height of its buildings is disturbing
(b) Its beauty is unintentional
(c) Its beauty is not original
(d) It is very youthful

3. Why did Franz like music?
(a) It helped him be less of a serious man
(b) Music had been part of his life since childhood
(c) Because it had no words
(d) His mother was a music lover

4. After she returned home to her small Czech town, how did Tereza re-enter Tomas's life?
(a) She came to Prague on a business trip and stayed at his home
(b) They ran into each other at a mutual friend's house
(c) She phoned him from the railway station, claiming she was in Prague to find a job
(d) He couldn't stop thinking about her and called her to come visit

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did making love with the engineer in the absence of love do to Tereza?

2. What happened to Tereza's father after her mother left him?

3. What was Marie-Claud's reaction upon hearing of her husband's infidelity?

4. Why did Tereza refuse the job offer as photographer?

5. What helped ease Tereza's anxiety when she entered the engineer's house?

(see the answer key)

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