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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tereza's mother when she found Tereza's diary
(a) Read it at the dinner table
(b) Threw it in the garbage
(c) Passed it along to her friends
(d) Shared it with her husband

2. What did Marie-Claude do to spend her time while in the hospital?
(a) Listen to the radio
(b) Knit
(c) Read books
(d) Paint

3. What did Tereza do six to seven months after she and Tomas moved to Switzerland?
(a) Return to live with her mother
(b) Pay Sabina a visit
(c) Return to Prague
(d) Get a job as a photographer

4. What did Marie-Claude threaten her husband with twenty years prior?
(a) A divorce
(b) Having an affair
(c) Revenge for an affair he'd had
(d) Suicide

5. For Sabina, what did the bowler hat NOT represent?
(a) Memento of her father
(b) Reminder of a forgotten grandfather
(c) A sentimental object while she was abroad
(d) Reminder of the men whom she'd loved

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Franz try to create for the woman he had fallen in love with?

2. Why did Tereza stay at Tomas's home for a week during her initial visit?

3. In Part 3, Chapter 9, what does Sabina do after she and Franz return from Rome?

4. What was Marie-Claud's reaction upon hearing of her husband's infidelity?

5. Franz had given up scores of women because of what misunderstanding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tereza write in the letter that she'd left for Tomas in Zurich?

2. What were books for Tereza?

3. In Part 4, Chapter 3, describe the meeting of the the crowd of umbrellas in the street which Tereza encounters.

4. In Part 2, Chapter 29, what were Tereza's first thought when Tomas had come back to Prague because of her?

5. For Franz, what is music?

6. In Part 3, Chapter 4, how does Sabina feel about her own unfairness towards the immigrants?

7. What is Tereza's relationship with her body?

8. Do you think that Tomas and Tereaz met by chance or by fate?

9. What did Tereza feel when she stood naked in front of Sabina as Sabina photographed her?

10. What is Sabina's views on conflict?

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