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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 3 "A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Franz like music?
(a) His mother was a music lover
(b) It helped him be less of a serious man
(c) Because it had no words
(d) Music had been part of his life since childhood

2. What was Tereza training for since childhood?
(a) Falling asleep while in the embrace of the man she loves
(b) In the morning, buying breakfast for her husband
(c) During sleep, holding hands of the man she loved
(d) Stroking her the hair of the man she loved while he lay asleep

3. Why wouldn't the magazine editor publish Tereza's photographs?
(a) He did not find them to be good enough
(b) They were vulgar for his taste
(c) They put his magazine in danger
(d) They were outdated

4. What did Tereza remember most of Dubeck's speech, the one he made after his return from Moscow?
(a) The trembling of his voice
(b) His words which carried much humiliation
(c) His courageous tone
(d) The awful pauses in the middle of his sentences

5. What did Tereza do with half of the undeveloped roll of films?
(a) Gave them to foreign journalists
(b) Hid them from the Russians
(c) Gave them to Sabina
(d) Destroyed them

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened at night that caused Tereza to fear that time of the day?

2. What may have attributed to the female puppy, Karenin, falling in love wtih Tereza rather than Tomas?

3. Whose quartet is based on the following two motifs: "Must it be?" "It must be."

4. When they were living in Zunich, what incident caused Tereza to pack her suitcase, take Karenin and leave for Prague while Tomas was at work?

5. What did Tomas initially feel when he discovered Tereza had left for Prague?

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