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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 had Simon done since childhood?
(a) searched for his father
(b) believe that his mother was the victim in the relationship
(c) be angry with his father
(d) forgave his father's wrongdoings

2. What most repelled Sabina of Communism?
(a) the way they showed affection to children when in front of cameras, in order to influence people
(b) the maske of beauty if tried to wear
(c) the way they transformed ruined castles into cow sheds
(d) the manner in which their statesmen beamed from the height of their reviewing stand

3. Who does Franz end up belonging to in death?
(a) himself
(b) his student-mistress
(c) his wife
(d) Sabina

4. What did Tomas hint to the doctor after he informed him that he would not retract his statement?
(a) to find him a good job replacement
(b) to find him another way where he could clear up his name
(c) to stand up to those pressuring him to make a retraction
(d) that a threat by all his colleagues to resign would sufface

5. What did Tereza fear it meant by the engineer never showing up again?
(a) He was sent by one of Tomas's women
(b) He was sick minded and had lured her there to take pictures
(c) He was sent by the drunk bald headed man
(d) He was sent by the secret police

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Tomas feel after the petition was published?

4. In Part 5, Chapter 27, what did Tereza find in the farm worker's face that she had not seen in ages?

5. Why did Tereza respond as she did to the engineer's advances?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is "kitsch?"

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

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

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. What causes Tereza to suspect the engineer was sent by the secret police?

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

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

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

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