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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. The difference between Tereza and other women is that Tereza had come to Tomas...
(a) innocent
(b) uncovered
(c) untouched
(d) with confidence

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

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

4. Tomas had come to medicine by...
(a) coincidence
(b) calculation
(c) a deep desire
(d) need for prestige

5. What desire led to Tomas's pursuit of women?
(a) power
(b) pleasure
(c) accumulation of different experiences
(d) possession of the world

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, Chapter 12, the author states that love begins with a...

2. What did the U.S. Senator Sabina was riding with consider happiness?

3. In Part 4, Chapter 8, what did Tereza know had become of her and Tomas?

4. What did Tereza see in the crow's solitude and desolation?

5. Who were many of Tomas's private customers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Prior to suggesting they move there, what experience has Tereza had with country life?

2. Is it Tereza's fault that Tomas had to leave his profession and ended up a truck driver in the country?

3. Why does Tomas resign from the clinic?

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

5. In Part 7, Chapter 4, why does Tereza think that her love for Karenin is better than the love between her and Tomas?

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

7. Why does Tereza yearn to make love to other men?

8. 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?

9. What does the ambassador tell Tereza is the three functions of the secret police?

10. What does the article about the dogs being summarily shot in Russia signify for Tereza?

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