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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tereza feel in the country?
(a) energetic
(b) sad
(c) happy
(d) lonely

2. In Part 5, Chapter 27, what did Tereza find in the farm worker's face that she had not seen in ages?
(a) someone broken
(b) someone very tired
(c) someone wise
(d) someone kind

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

4. What did Sabina rebel agains?
(a) Soviet films with political themes
(b) the reality of the Communist regime
(c) current conventional interpretation of Soviet films
(d) the Soviet films with happy endings

5. Why was Tomas called to the editor's office?
(a) editor wanted Tomas to sign a permission slip
(b) editor requested the removal of one of the sentences from the article
(c) editer wanted Tomas to cut the article to a third
(d) editor suggested Tomas change word order in one of the sentences

6. What did making love with the engineer in the absence of love do to Tereza?
(a) it darkened her soul's sight
(b) it confined her soul
(c) it liberated her
(d) it restored her soul's sight

7. What did Tereza long to end?
(a) her jealousy
(b) her insecurities
(c) her weakness
(d) her dependence on Tomas

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

9. 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 was still very affected by the days of the Soviet invasion
(b) the town's sign posts had disappeared because during the invasion people pulled them down
(c) all its street signs were taken from Russian geography and history
(d) the hotel where they normally stayed resembled a miniature Russia

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

11. What did Tereza do the moment after she had sex with the engineer?
(a) Beg him not to tell anyone
(b) Sob in his arms
(c) Spit in his face
(d) Think of suicide

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

13. In what condition did Tereza and Karenin find the black crow under?
(a) From neck down, buried in dirt
(b) One of its feet cut off
(c) Lying on dirt, its wings cut off
(d) Wounded and bleeding

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

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) that the world was a lonely place
(d) a reflection of her own fate

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tomas's son write a letter to Tomas when they were living in the country?

2. What most repelled Sabina of Communism?

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

4. What concerned Tomas about moving to the country?

5. What distinguished the woman Tomas met in chapter 10 from other women?

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