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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the first piece of furniture Franz ever bought for himself?
(a) Table
(b) Desk
(c) Couch
(d) Bed

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

6. What is Franz's attitude when it comes to love and strength
(a) Being in love makes one strong
(b) Strong people don't know how to love
(c) Love means renouncing strength
(d) Using one's strength on a loved one is considered violence

7. What is Franz's profession?
(a) Painter
(b) Professor
(c) Doctor
(d) Engineer

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

9. In Part 3, chapter 2, why were Sabina and Tomas touched by the sight of the bowler hat?
(a) It had been lost and only recently found
(b) It reminded tehm of Prague
(c) It connected them to the depth of their friendship
(d) It was a memnto of Sabrina's father and grandfather

10. What did Tereza's mother forbid Tereza to do?
(a) Go out with friends
(b) Lock the bathroom door
(c) Spend time alone in her room
(d) Live with Tomas

11. What did Tereza's mother when she found Tereza's diary
(a) Read it at the dinner table
(b) Passed it along to her friends
(c) Threw it in the garbage
(d) Shared it with her husband

12. 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) Youth and beauty
(d) The communist regime's ways

13. When they were living in Zunich, what incident caused Tereza to pack her suitcase, take Karenin and leave for Prague while Tomas was at work?
(a) Shes aw Tomas with another woman
(b) Tomas coming home very late when they were to have had dinner together
(c) A letter from her mother begging her to return to her
(d) An unknown woman had called asking for Tomas

14. What would have caused Tereza to do anything for her mother?
(a) Her mother showing any kind of approval for a change
(b) Her mother having asked in a loving voice
(c) Her mother having admitted her wrongdoing
(d) Her mother asking for forgiveness

15. After Sabina settled in Paris, what were her thoughts about Franz?
(a) She wished he had never publicized their affair
(b) She was sorry to have been so impatient with him
(c) She imagined the possibility of them one day uniting
(d) She felt guilty for having left him without a word

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of teenager was Tereza?

3. Sabina did not share Franz's passion for...

4. Who did Franz respect and worship?

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

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