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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Tomas promised if he made the retraction?
(a) the letter will be filed away and never leaked out
(b) he could keep his job at the hospital
(c) he would get a promotion
(d) he would be able to ransfer to another hospital

3. What did Tereza refuse to bring along on her walk with Tomas and Karenin?
(a) a leash
(b) a camera
(c) a roll
(d) chocolate

4. What did Tereza fear it meant by the engineer never showing up again?
(a) He was sent by one of Tomas's women
(b) He was sent by the drunk bald headed man
(c) He was sick minded and had lured her there to take pictures
(d) He was sent by the secret police

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

6. What happened to Tomas's son as a result of the petition campaign?
(a) he was expelled from university
(b) he lost his job
(c) he decided to move to the country
(d) he decided to leave Prague

7. Why did Tereza respond as she did to the engineer's advances?
(a) She refused to take any responsibility for what was happening
(b) She wanted to stop herself from making a mistake
(c) She didn't want the engineer to fall in love with her
(d) She hoped to quickly get through the experience

8. How did the engineer respond to Tereza's resistance?
(a) He asked her if she wanted to stop
(b) He pressed himself onto her even harder
(c) He became frustrated and hostile
(d) He soothed her by stroking her face

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

10. In Part 5, Chapter 25, why was it impossible for Tereza and Tomas to spend the night at the little town outside of Prague?
(a) the town's sign posts had disappeared because during the invasion people pulled them down
(b) all its street signs were taken from Russian geography and history
(c) the hotel where they normally stayed resembled a miniature Russia
(d) the town was still very affected by the days of the Soviet invasion

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

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

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

14. What were Soviet films saturated with?
(a) political themes
(b) conflict and resolution
(c) incredible innocense and chastity
(d) family sagas

15. Approximately how many women had Tomas known?
(a) Fifty
(b) Two hundred
(c) four hundred
(d) a hundred

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the incident that Tomas could not recall with his lover?

2. What did Tereza feel she was doing by going to the engineer's house?

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

4. The author describes kitsch as the absolute denial of

5. What Czech text was written on the poster hanging on the editor's wall?

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