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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tomas avoid falling in love with the women he became intimate with?
(a) He only met the women at their place
(b) He never spent the night with a woman
(c) He would not see any woman more than once a month
(d) He would stop seeing a woman after 3 encounters

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

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

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

5. In Tereza's eyes, what did books represent?
(a) A world of intellectuals
(b) A fair and just world
(c) A secret world of schools
(d) An emblem of the secret brotherhood

6. What affect did the first week of the Russian occupation have on Tereza?
(a) Led her to want to leave Prague for good
(b) Brought her closest she'd ever been to happiness
(c) Caused her to tremble out of fear
(d) Put her into a depression

7. In chapter 1, where does Franza want to take Sabina?
(a) New York
(b) Paris
(c) Palermo
(d) Santorini

8. 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 admitted her wrongdoing
(c) Her mother having asked in a loving voice
(d) Her mother asking for forgiveness

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

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

11. What incident led Franz to tell his wife about his affair?
(a) Having an incredible urge to change his life
(b) Wanting to spend the rest of his life with Sabina
(c) Hearing his wife's remarks about Sabina's pendant
(d) His wife disrespecting him at the party

12. After she returned home to her small Czech town, how did Tereza re-enter Tomas's life?
(a) He couldn't stop thinking about her and called her to come visit
(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) She came to Prague on a business trip and stayed at his home

13. What may have attributed to the female puppy, Karenin, falling in love wtih Tereza rather than Tomas?
(a) Tereza's familiarity with pets
(b) Tereza's attachment to the dog
(c) Tomas's long absence from home
(d) Being given a boy's name

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

15. Franz had given up scores of women because of what misunderstanding?
(a) He was afraid he could not keep a secret
(b) He thought his wife had been faithful to him
(c) He had been affraid of wounding his wife
(d) He thought being a virtuous and faithful man would help improve his marriage

Short Answer Questions

1. What feelings did Sabina portray towards the immigrants she sat with?

2. How did Sabina feel about Franz having told his wife of their affair?

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

4. After Sabina settled in Paris, what were her thoughts about Franz?

5. Who did Franz respect and worship?

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