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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapters 17-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tereza do six to seven months after she and Tomas moved to Switzerland?
(a) Return to live with her mother
(b) Get a job as a photographer
(c) Return to Prague
(d) Pay Sabina a visit

2. What is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?
(a) A longing to be as beautiful as her mother
(b) A longing to be a body unlike other bodies
(c) A yearning to physically fit into society
(d) A desire to be admired by men

3. What did Tereza understand the benches floating downstream to mean in her dream?
(a) she was no longer going to be a burdon
(b) something bad was about to happen
(c) death
(d) a farewell

4. What was Sabina's views of modern music?
(a) It was loud noise masked as music
(b) It lacked the rythm and beat that American music had
(c) She disliked it because it reminded her of the occupation
(d) She disliked it because it was difficult to dance to

5. What Czech text was written on the poster hanging on the editor's wall?
(a) End the Russian Occupation
(b) Have you signed the Two Thousand Words?
(c) Free Intellectuals from Going into Prison
(d) Help Politcal Prisoners

Short Answer Questions

1. What episode proved that Tomas was as tired mentally as physically - from having too many erotic engagements?

2. What happened to Franz when he started living alone in a tiny flat?

3. What did Marie-Claude threaten her husband with twenty years prior?

4. At the party, what did Marie-Claude call Sabina's ceramic pendant?

5. Who were many of Tomas's private customers?

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