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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 19, what did the editor say to Tomas when he approached him?
(a) Watch out! We're being filmed!
(b) Careful! Don't come any closer!
(c) Don't try the old-pals act on us!
(d) If you talk to us, you'll face interrogation!

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

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

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tereza's suggestion about moving to the country do to Tomas?

2. What was the incident that Tomas could not recall with his lover?

3. What did the bald headed man at the bar accuse Tereza of that caused the engineer to step in?

4. What was the one thing Tomas associated the words "helping people" with?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does Franz realize at the end of his trip to Cambodia?

5. All her life Sabina had proclaimed kitsch her enemy. But, Kundera asks, hasn't she in fact been carrying it with her?

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

7. What is "kitsch?"

8. Why does Tomas resign from the clinic?

9. 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?"

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

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