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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of teenager was Tereza?
(a) Proud
(b) Lazy
(c) Responsible
(d) Rebellios

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

3. Why did Tomas oppose Tereza visiting her mother when she heard she had cancer?
(a) He feared Tereza was using this as an excuse to leave him
(b) He knew Tereza was lying.
(c) He disliked her mother and worried she'd cause trouble between him and Tereza
(d) He discovered her mother was lying.

4. Whose quartet is based on the following two motifs: "Must it be?" "It must be."
(a) Mozart
(b) Bach
(c) Webber
(d) Beethoven

5. What feelings did Sabina portray towards the immigrants she sat with?
(a) Hatred
(b) Sympathy
(c) Frustration
(d) Love

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tereza suffer as a result of Tomas's affairs?

2. In chapter 1, where does Franza want to take Sabina?

3. What is the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror?

4. Where did Tomas and Tereza meet?

5. Why wouldn't the magazine editor publish Tereza's photographs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tereza's mother:

2. "That pendant is ugly," Marie-Claude says to Sabina. Why does she make such a remark?

3. Describe Marie-Claude's personality.

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

5. What did the dream about the naked women in the pool, who resembled each other and who were one by one executed by Tomas, represent?

6. What happens to Franz after Sabina leaves him for good?

7. What did the bowler hat represent for Sabina?

8. What type of daughter was Tereza? What was her lifestyle like?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 29, what were Tereza's first thought when Tomas had come back to Prague because of her?

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

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