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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, on their way back to Prague, what did Tereza brood about?
(a) If she should pay the engineer a visit
(b) Why the engineer never returned to the bar
(c) Tomas's continuous fidelity
(d) Naked pictures of her and the engineer

2. How did Tereza feel in the country?
(a) sad
(b) lonely
(c) energetic
(d) happy

3. In one of her dreams, what was it that Tereza saw floating downstream as she stared at the river?
(a) Prague's castles and churches
(b) Prague's park benches
(c) Prague's secret police
(d) Prague's street signs

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

5. What did Tereza's suggestion about moving to the country do to Tomas?
(a) rejuvenated
(b) old
(c) depressed
(d) enthusiastic

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Tomas's reaction when one of his mistresses reminded him of an intimate incident he couldn't recall?

3. What did the man from the Ministry want from Tomas?

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

5. What did Tereza long to end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is "kitsch?"

6. Why does Tomas resign from the clinic?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Describe Simon's relationship with his mother.

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