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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 he would be able to convince his father to sign the petition
(c) the editor's fate reminded him of his father
(d) he knew the could help his father regain his job

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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. What did Tereza's suggestion about moving to the country do to Tomas?
(a) enthusiastic
(b) old
(c) depressed
(d) rejuvenated

11. Standing in the anteroom, what saved Tereza from the temptation to burst out crying in the engineer's presence, and thus, fall in love with him?
(a) his crude manners
(b) his unpleasant voice
(c) his arrogance
(d) his harsh voice

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

13. What does Tereza claim to Tomas during their dance at the hotel's bar?
(a) she regretted having been so jealous all those years
(b) it was her fault he ended up in the country
(c) from the start, she'd tried to get him away from Sabina
(d) she is very happy they are finally together alone

14. What most repelled Sabina of Communism?
(a) the way they showed affection to children when in front of cameras, in order to influence people
(b) the way they transformed ruined castles into cow sheds
(c) the maske of beauty if tried to wear
(d) the manner in which their statesmen beamed from the height of their reviewing stand

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, Chapter 7, Tomas recalls how after leaving Zurich for Prague, he felt he...

2. Sabina liked America...

3. What did Tereza fear it meant by the engineer never showing up again?

4. How did Tomas's hospital colleagues react when he saw Tomas at the window shop?

5. In Part 4, Chapter 13, Tereza has a nightmare where certain words prevent a man from shooting her. What were her words?

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