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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What desire led to Tomas's pursuit of women?
(a) power
(b) pleasure
(c) accumulation of different experiences
(d) possession of the world

2. At the engineer's house, what made Tereza feel as though TOmas had purposely left a trace?
(a) Sophocles' Philoctetes
(b) Sophocles' Antigone
(c) Sophocles' Electra
(d) Sophocles' Oedipus

3. In Part 5, Chapter 25, why was it impossible for Tereza and Tomas to spend the night at the little town outside of Prague?
(a) the town's sign posts had disappeared because during the invasion people pulled them down
(b) all its street signs were taken from Russian geography and history
(c) the hotel where they normally stayed resembled a miniature Russia
(d) the town was still very affected by the days of the Soviet invasion

4. What helped ease Tereza's anxiety when she entered the engineer's house?
(a) Drinking a glass of wine
(b) Listening to Beethoven
(c) Seeing he had book shelves
(d) Having a cup of soup

5. Approximately how many women had Tomas known?
(a) Two hundred
(b) Fifty
(c) four hundred
(d) a hundred

6. In Part 5, Chapter 7, Tomas recalls how after leaving Zurich for Prague, he felt he...
(a) he should have run away from his cage, not return to it
(b) was destined to always remain with Tereza
(c) did not really love Tereza
(d) had been led to Tereza by a chain of laughable coincidences

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

8. 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) Naked pictures of her and the engineer
(d) Tomas's continuous fidelity

9. What disease did Karenin have?
(a) rabies
(b) canine influenza
(c) cancer
(d) kennel cough

10. In Part 5, Chapter 23, Tomas has a dream of a woman he'd never met before, who was...
(a) resembles Sabina
(b) resembles Tereza in appearance but not in personality
(c) is strong like his mother
(d) the woman of his dreams

11. What was the incident that Tomas could not recall with his lover?
(a) making love on a special quilt she'd made
(b) making love in a bathtub while there was a storm outside
(c) making love on a rug while there was a storm outside
(d) making love on the kitchen floor

12. What did the bald headed man at the bar accuse Tereza of that caused the engineer to step in?
(a) flirting with a 16 year old boy
(b) prostitution
(c) selling alcohol to a minor
(d) being disrespectful to customers

13. The man who visited Tomas at the clinic where Tomas was a general practitioner introduced himself as...
(a) Ministry of Education
(b) Ministry of Culture
(c) Ministry of the Interior
(d) Ministry of Health

14. How did Tomas end up being a window washer?
(a) by signing a petition
(b) by saying terrible things about the secret police in front of the man from the Ministry
(c) by having his conversation about Communists wired and publicized
(d) by not signing a letter the secret police requested of him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the engineer respond to Tereza's resistance?

2. In Part 5, chapter 19, what did the editor say to Tomas when he approached him?

3. Why didn't Tomas and Tereza have children?

4. What did Tereza see in the crow's solitude and desolation?

5. What most repelled Sabina of Communism?

(see the answer keys)

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