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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the engineer undressed Tereza, how did she respond?
(a) She asked him to stop
(b) Neutral
(c) She resisted him
(d) She assisted him

2. The man who visited Tomas at the clinic where Tomas was a general practitioner introduced himself as...
(a) Ministry of Education
(b) Ministry of the Interior
(c) Ministry of Culture
(d) Ministry of Health

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

4. What did Tomas feel the first day he reported to the window washer job?
(a) disappointment
(b) fear
(c) shock
(d) anxiety

5. In Part 4, Chapter 13, Tereza has a nightmare where certain words prevent a man from shooting her. What were her words?
(a) You don't have the right
(b) Don't do it!
(c) Help me, please!
(d) But it wasn't my choice

6. What was Sabina's fantasy about her and Tomas?
(a) She being seated on a toilet while he watches
(b) Tomas tearing off her clothes
(c) Tomas being seated on the toilet while she watches
(d) Tomas watching her make love to another man

7. When asked to sign the letter, why didn't Tomas give the secret policeman an immediate and unconditional "no"?
(a) he wanted to first talk it over with Tereza
(b) he was afraid of losing his job
(c) he wanted time to convince himself to sign
(d) He feared they would print the statement with or without his consent

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

9. In Tereza's dream, what did Karenin give birth to?
(a) bees and honey
(b) a cow and a pig
(c) two rolls and a bee
(d) rolls, milk and butter

10. What type of work did Tomas do on the farm?
(a) raised pigs
(b) vet
(c) looked after the cows
(d) drove a truck

11. What did the bald headed man at the bar accuse Tereza of that caused the engineer to step in?
(a) being disrespectful to customers
(b) prostitution
(c) selling alcohol to a minor
(d) flirting with a 16 year old boy

12. Why didn't Tomas and Tereza have children?
(a) Tereza did not want them
(b) Tereza could not have children
(c) Tomas could not have children
(d) Tomas did not want them

13. In Part 6, Chapter 11, who does Sabina claim is her enemy?
(a) communism
(b) kitsch
(c) Czech immigrants
(d) injustice

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, chapter 19, what did the editor say to Tomas when he approached him?

2. In Part 7, Chapter 6, what animal does Tereza dream of?

3. What path did Simon take that he believed his father secretly agreed with?

4. What was Tomas promised if he made the retraction?

5. In Part 5, Chapter 25, why was it impossible for Tereza and Tomas to spend the night at the little town outside of Prague?

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