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

2. What was Tomas's reaction when one of his mistresses reminded him of an intimate incident he couldn't recall?
(a) he thought it funny
(b) appalled
(c) burdoned
(d) annoyed

3. What did Tereza understand the benches floating downstream to mean in her dream?
(a) a farewell
(b) death
(c) something bad was about to happen
(d) she was no longer going to be a burdon

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tomas describe the editor to the man from the Ministry?

2. What does Tereza claim to Tomas during their dance at the hotel's bar?

3. Why didn't Tomas and Tereza have children?

4. In Part 7, Chapter 6, what animal does Tereza dream of?

5. The difference between Tereza and other women is that Tereza had come to Tomas...

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Franz change his mind and decide to go to Cambodia?

2. 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?"

3. 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?

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

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

6. What is at stake if Tomas does not retract the article he wrote?

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

8. In Part 5, Chapter 10, what distinguishes the women who looks like a giraffe and a stork from others?

9. After making love to the engineer, what does Tereza desire to do?

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

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