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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the party, what did Marie-Claude call Sabina's ceramic pendant?
(a) Strange
(b) Ugly
(c) Cheap
(d) Gaudy

2. What did Marie-Claude threaten her husband with twenty years prior?
(a) Suicide
(b) Revenge for an affair he'd had
(c) A divorce
(d) Having an affair

3. What does Franz worry about daily?
(a) His mistress leaving him
(b) His wife having an affair
(c) His wife finding about his mistress
(d) His wife leaving him

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

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 awful pauses in the middle of his sentences
(d) The trembling of his voice

6. What did Karenin hate?
(a) Change
(b) Cold weather
(c) Walks
(d) Other animals

7. Who did Sabina's bowler hat belong to?
(a) Tomas
(b) Her brother
(c) An old boyfriend
(d) Her grandfather

8. What did Sabina unexpectedly meet in the village church?
(a) God
(b) Faith
(c) Beauty
(d) Happiness

9. Why was Marie-Claude so rude to Sabina?
(a) Because that's the type of person she is
(b) To get revenge on her husband, who she knew loves Sabina
(c) To make clear to Sabina (and others) what the real balance of power was between the two of them
(d) To take revenge on Sabina, who she knew was having an affair with her husband, by embarrassing her

10. In his lifetime, Franz has never...
(a) Fought anyone
(b) Wanted to fight
(c) Lost a fight
(d) Won a fight

11. What is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?
(a) A yearning to physically fit into society
(b) A desire to be admired by men
(c) A longing to be as beautiful as her mother
(d) A longing to be a body unlike other bodies

12. What did Franz do during sex that Sabina disliked?
(a) He turned off the light
(b) He told her he loved her
(c) He asked if she loved him.
(d) He closed his eyes.

13. Where did Tomas and Tereza meet?
(a) Train stattion where Tomas was departing for Prague
(b) Hotel restaurant where Tereza worked
(c) Hotel where they were both staying
(d) Bar where Tomas hung out during his work breaks

14. Why did Tomas oppose Tereza visiting her mother when she heard she had cancer?
(a) He knew Tereza was lying.
(b) He disliked her mother and worried she'd cause trouble between him and Tereza
(c) He discovered her mother was lying.
(d) He feared Tereza was using this as an excuse to leave him

15. What was Tereza training for since childhood?
(a) Stroking her the hair of the man she loved while he lay asleep
(b) Falling asleep while in the embrace of the man she loves
(c) During sleep, holding hands of the man she loved
(d) In the morning, buying breakfast for her husband

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Franz's words about love and strength do to Sabina?

3. What did Franz feel with regards to his love for Sabina?

4. What novel was Tereza reading when she went to visit Tomas?

5. With regards to love, what was Sabina's nature?

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