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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Marie-Claude's say about the serious car accident she once had?
(a) The accident helped her appreciate her husband and daughter
(b) The accident caused her to never want to drive again
(c) She'd never had more fun than when she was in the hospital
(d) She'd never had more rest than when she was in the hospital

2. Sabina understood Franz's...
(a) Distaste for America
(b) His love for his wife and daughter
(c) His desire to fight Communism
(d) His need to be a part of her world

3. When was the only time Tereza and Tomas could talk to each other when they worked opposite shifts?
(a) When he visited her at work
(b) During breakfast
(c) When she visited him at work
(d) During lunch breaks

4. Where did Tomas and Tereza meet?
(a) Train stattion where Tomas was departing for Prague
(b) Hotel where they were both staying
(c) Hotel restaurant where Tereza worked
(d) Bar where Tomas hung out during his work breaks

5. In his lifetime, Franz has never...
(a) Wanted to fight
(b) Fought anyone
(c) Lost a fight
(d) Won a fight

6. What did Tereza try to see herself through?
(a) Her body
(b) Her faith
(c) Tomas's love
(d) Her childhood

7. What novel was Tereza reading when she went to visit Tomas?
(a) Anna Karenina
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) The Scarlett Letter
(d) War and Peace

8. Sabina is stirred by her own...
(a) injustice
(b) indifference
(c) strength
(d) struggles

9. What did Marie-Claude threaten her husband with twenty years prior?
(a) Suicide
(b) Revenge for an affair he'd had
(c) Having an affair
(d) A divorce

10. What did Tereza's mother when she found Tereza's diary
(a) Shared it with her husband
(b) Read it at the dinner table
(c) Threw it in the garbage
(d) Passed it along to her friends

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

12. What happened to Tereza's father after her mother left him?
(a) He was imprisoned
(b) He remarried
(c) He left town
(d) He died in a car accident

13. What happened at night that caused Tereza to fear that time of the day?
(a) She dwelt on Tomas's infidelities
(b) She trembled
(c) She dwelt on Tomas abandoning her
(d) She had nightmares.

14. What term did Tereza use to express how she felt about life with her family?
(a) factory
(b) boarding house
(c) prison
(d) concentration camp

15. What does Marie-Anne and her mother do when they have a party?
(a) Ignore Franz
(b) Walk around barefoot
(c) Make rude remarks to whomever they do not like
(d) Sit cross legged on the floor

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, chapter 2, why were Sabina and Tomas touched by the sight of the bowler hat?

2. What did Tereza propose to Sabina?

3. After Sabina settled in Paris, what were her thoughts about Franz?

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

5. How did Tomas avoid falling in love with the women he became intimate with?

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