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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Tomas realize the strange man was interrogating him?
(a) when he offered him a job with the government
(b) when he asked to meet him alone after work
(c) when he asked him very personal questions
(d) when he asked for the editor's name

2. What Czech text was written on the poster hanging on the editor's wall?
(a) Free Intellectuals from Going into Prison
(b) End the Russian Occupation
(c) Help Politcal Prisoners
(d) Have you signed the Two Thousand Words?

3. In Part 5, Chapter 12, the author states that love begins with a...
(a) happy memories
(b) a poetic scene
(c) a surrender
(d) metaphor

4. In Part 5, Chapter 7, Tomas recalls how after leaving Zurich for Prague, he felt he...
(a) had been led to Tereza by a chain of laughable coincidences
(b) was destined to always remain with Tereza
(c) did not really love Tereza
(d) he should have run away from his cage, not return to it

5. In Part 4, Chapter 22, Tereza's thoughts about the engineer are...
(a) She longs for him to come to the bar and invite her back
(b) She prays she will never see him again
(c) She hopes she could find a way to forget about him
(d) She wonders if she could leave Tomas for him

6. At the end of the novel, Tereza feels that if she really had loved Tomas with a great love, she would have...
(a) not been jealous of his affairs
(b) stuck it out with him abroad
(c) been more appreciative of his love
(d) allowed Tomas to resume his medical practice

7. The difference between Tereza and other women is that Tereza had come to Tomas...
(a) innocent
(b) with confidence
(c) uncovered
(d) untouched

8. What was the one thing Tomas associated the words "helping people" with?
(a) medicine
(b) money
(c) courage
(d) ideas

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

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

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

12. How did Tomas describe the editor to the man from the Ministry?
(a) He was tall
(b) He was skinny
(c) He was short
(d) He was fat

13. How did Tomas feel after the petition was published?
(a) he was glad he had not signed
(b) he questioned whether or not he should have signed
(c) he wished he had signed
(d) he considered writing an article about the petition

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

15. What did Tereza see in the crow's solitude and desolation?
(a) that it was a good thing not to have children
(b) that the world was a cruel place
(c) a reflection of her own fate
(d) that the world was a lonely place

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tomas's reaction when one of his mistresses reminded him of an intimate incident he couldn't recall?

2. In Part 5, Chapter 2, who does the author attribute the works of the Communist regime of Central Europe?

3. In Part 4, Chapter 8, what did Tereza know had become of her and Tomas?

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

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

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