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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 was Tereza's and Tomas's love supported on?
(a) Her fidelity
(b) Her sense of justice
(c) Her honesty
(d) Her innocent ways

2. At the end of the novel, Tereza feels that if she really had loved Tomas with a great love, she would have...
(a) stuck it out with him abroad
(b) allowed Tomas to resume his medical practice
(c) not been jealous of his affairs
(d) been more appreciative of his love

3. What distinguished the woman Tomas met in chapter 10 from other women?
(a) She was very plump
(b) She had a masculine voice
(c) She was taller than him
(d) She had red hair

4. When asked to sign the letter, why didn't Tomas give the secret policeman an immediate and unconditional "no"?
(a) He feared they would print the statement with or without his consent
(b) he was afraid of losing his job
(c) he wanted time to convince himself to sign
(d) he wanted to first talk it over with Tereza

5. What was the one thing Tomas associated the words "helping people" with?
(a) courage
(b) medicine
(c) ideas
(d) money

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only reason Simon became involved with the editor?

2. In what condition did Tereza and Karenin find the black crow under?

3. How did Tomas feel about his window washing job after a while?

4. Approximately how many women had Tomas known?

5. When the engineer undressed Tereza, how did she respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "kitsch?"

2. Does Tomas make a mistake by returning to Prague from Zurich?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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. Describe Tomas's work at the clinic.

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

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