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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Chapter 9, what does Sabina do after she and Franz return from Rome?

2. What did Franz try to create for the woman he had fallen in love with?

3. What is the command Tomas uses on both Sabina and Tereza?

4. What made Tomas jealous at the bar, where he and Tereza met with friends to celebrate Tereza's promotion?

5. Why did Tereza refuse the job offer as photographer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is reaching the lightness of being Sabina's goal?

2. Why does Franz take part in every possible demonstration in Paris?

3. Describe Tereza's mother:

4. In Part 3, Chapter 4, how does Sabina feel about her own unfairness towards the immigrants?

5. How does Franz expect Marie-Claude to react to his confession about his affairs and how does she actually respond?

6. How did Tereza react to her mother's phone call telling her she had cancer and only 5 months to live?

7. How did Tomas ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggression of love?

8. What did Tereza feel when she stood naked in front of Sabina as Sabina photographed her?

9. What were books for Tereza?

10. What argument does Tereza use when she rejects the offer to take photos of a cactus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you have signed the petition to grant amnesty to all political prisoners? Why or why not? Do you agree with Tomas's reasons not to have signed the petition? What is your overall opinion about petitions?

Essay Topic 2

The possibility of a different outcome between Tomas and Tereza.

What could Tomas have done to help change the course of his relationship with Tereza? What could she have done differently? Why did neither one of them try to take a stronger stand with the other in an attempt to rescue the relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Tomas and Tereza's love is based on her fidelity.

1. Did Tereza's infidelity help her achieve her goal of having Tomas all to herself? What would have happened had Tereza not had an affair? Did her infidelity cure her from jealousy?

2. Tereza does not believe that Tomas would throw her out if he learns of her affair. What then would Tomas have done? How would him knowing have changed the nature of their relationship?

3. Had Tereza not given up her life to Tomas, making him certain of her fidelity, would he have fallen in love with her and married her? What does your answer say about his character?

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