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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. 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

2. What did the U.S. Senator Sabina was riding with consider happiness?
(a) children
(b) religion
(c) living in America
(d) freedom of speech

3. 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 slightly moved his nose left to right
(c) he twitched his eyes
(d) he slightly raised his left brow

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

5. 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 leave Prague
(d) he decided to move to the country

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Franzy initially reject the invitation to march in Cambodia?

3. What helped ease Tereza's anxiety when she entered the engineer's house?

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

5. What did Tereza do the moment after she had sex with the engineer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people react as Tomas tries to decide whether or not to retract his article?

2. In Part 5, Chapter 12, what incident with one of his lovers, who he always took to his friend's house, causes Tomas to be appalled?

3. In Part 5, Chapter 17, what episode both amuses and horrifies Tomas, proving that he is as tired mentally as he is physically?

4. What did Tereza worry would happen if Tomas found out about her affair with the engineer?

5. Kundera claims that the way Tomas rushes into the decision to leave the clinic seems rather odd. He asks, could it perhaps conceal something else, something deeper that escapes Toma s's reasoning? What is the answer to his question?

6. What is "kitsch?"

7. In the end, Tereza knows she has reached her goals. What are her goals?

8. Kundera writes, whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. What does he mean by the word "totalitarian?"

9. When talking to his son, Simon, what is Tomas's attitude about the article he had written?

10. Why does Tomas resign from the clinic?

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