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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happened when the interpreter that headed the march requested permission to enter the territory of Cambodia?
(a) they were told to go back where they came from
(b) they were greeted by silence
(c) they were strip searched
(d) they were told only the doctors could enter

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

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

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

7. In Part 5, Chapter 28, what did Tereza want to tell Tomas on their way back to Prague?
(a) she wanted to quit her job at the bar
(b) she wanted them to move to the country
(c) to do something that would help stop her jealousy
(d) about her affair with the engineer

8. What concerned Tomas about moving to the country?
(a) he could no longer practice medicine
(b) he would be bored by the slow lifestyle
(c) he would never be able to escape Tereza
(d) he would have difficulty finding a new woman every week

9. How did Tomas feel about his window washing job after a while?
(a) he enjoyed hit
(b) pity for himself
(c) he hated it
(d) regret

10. What distinguished the woman Tomas met in chapter 10 from other women?
(a) She had red hair
(b) She was very plump
(c) She had a masculine voice
(d) She was taller than him

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

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

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

14. How did Tomas end up being a window washer?
(a) by not signing a letter the secret police requested of him
(b) by saying terrible things about the secret police in front of the man from the Ministry
(c) by signing a petition
(d) by having his conversation about Communists wired and publicized

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work did Tomas do on the farm?

2. What did making love with the engineer in the absence of love do to Tereza?

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

4. Why was Tomas called to the editor's office?

5. What episode proved that Tomas was as tired mentally as physically - from having too many erotic engagements?

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