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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 5, Chapter 28, on their way back to Prague, what did Tereza brood about?
(a) If she should pay the engineer a visit
(b) Tomas's continuous fidelity
(c) Why the engineer never returned to the bar
(d) Naked pictures of her and the engineer

2. What path did Simon take that he believed his father secretly agreed with?
(a) a practicing Catholic
(b) married with children
(c) working on a collective farm
(d) an anti-communist

3. What was the incident that Tomas could not recall with his lover?
(a) making love on the kitchen floor
(b) making love in a bathtub while there was a storm outside
(c) making love on a rug while there was a storm outside
(d) making love on a special quilt she'd made

4. In Part 7, Chapter 6, what animal does Tereza dream of?
(a) a dog
(b) a rabbit
(c) a horse
(d) a mouse

5. What was Tereza's and Tomas's love supported on?
(a) Her innocent ways
(b) Her fidelity
(c) Her honesty
(d) Her sense of justice

6. What did the man from the Ministry want from Tomas?
(a) to tell the truth about who the editor was
(b) to transfer to another clinic
(c) to make a public apology
(d) to sign a letter

7. What privilege did Tomas want to grant Karenin that was forbidden to humans?
(a) death in the guise of his loved ones
(b) unconditional love
(c) euthanasia
(d) a peaceful death

8. What did Tomas say is much more important than sending petitions to a president?
(a) writing articles
(b) leading demonstrations
(c) performing surgery on people
(d) digging a half-buried crow out of the ground

9. How did Tereza feel about Tomas's son?
(a) she was upset Tomas had never mentioned him before
(b) she wanted to go visit him and his family
(c) she wanted Tomas to invite him over
(d) she prefered they let him alone

10. The image of the abandoned child Tomas had of Tereza reflected on which ancient myth?
(a) Sophocles' Oedipus
(b) Sophocles' Electra
(c) Sophocles' Antigone
(d) Sophocles' Philoctetes

11. What was the only reason Simon became involved with the editor?
(a) he really believed in the idea of helping political prisoners
(b) he knew the could help his father regain his job
(c) the editor's fate reminded him of his father
(d) he knew he would be able to convince his father to sign the petition

12. In Part 5, chapter 19, what did the editor say to Tomas when he approached him?
(a) Careful! Don't come any closer!
(b) Don't try the old-pals act on us!
(c) Watch out! We're being filmed!
(d) If you talk to us, you'll face interrogation!

13. What did Tomas catch Tereza do that upset him?
(a) read his letters
(b) search his desk
(c) give Karenin chocolate
(d) make a grave for Karenin

14. What expression did Tomas have, when concentrating, that he saw in his son?
(a) he slightly moved his nose left to right
(b) he slightly raised his left brow
(c) he twitched his eyes
(d) he slightly raised the left side of his upper lip

15. Who does Franz end up belonging to in death?
(a) himself
(b) his wife
(c) his student-mistress
(d) Sabina

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tereza refuse to bring along on her walk with Tomas and Karenin?

2. What was Sabina's fantasy about her and Tomas?

3. In one of her dreams, what was it that Tereza saw floating downstream as she stared at the river?

4. What most repelled Sabina of Communism?

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

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