Tomas and Theresa met in a hotel café where she was working
2) 1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
Tomas and Theresa met in a hotel café where she was working
2 What happened 10 days later?
Thereza went to his house and got love sick and stayed there for 7 days
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
She considered him as the person who freed her and wanted to stay with him for ever
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She got very sick
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
He lets her spend the night which breaks his rules in relation to what happens after sex
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About the reason she is staying in Prague
7 What does she really do?
She stays with Thomas
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
We find out he is divorced and with a son he is not allowed to keep. He cant visit him mucho so he stops visiting him altogether.
9) That you caqnt know what is going to happen next in life
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
she sleeps with him
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
The soul and the Body
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Tomas friend and sex buddy Sabina finds Thereza a job
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
To follow Thomas`s command or she will be killed
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabrina telling Thomas she wants to have Sex in the studio with people watching
16 How does she react to the written material?
She says she has a dream about her wathching them
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
Thomas gets jelous
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Thereza begins to feel she is a weight slowing and pulling Thomas down.
19 Why do you think they marry?
They want to be together .
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
There is a Russian invasion in Prague and politics are not stable
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
In Zurich and he doesn’t accept it mainly because of Thereza
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
No one. She takes fotos and then gives them to journalists
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
To become a better and more important person ad to gain richer experiences + she feels Thomas does not deserve her of viceversa.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking
Bethoven is smooth and has high points and low pouinthe like Thomas
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
He feels it was destiny.
Friday 31 August 2007
Thursday 30 August 2007
adrian quiz 1
1) Teresa ans Tomas meet in the hotel cafe.
2) Teresa is in´prague with Tomas and they sleep together.
3) Tomas dident want Teresa to sleep with him because he dosent like long term relationships.
4) While Teresa visits Tomas, she cries because she feels that Tomas has been the only one who has "oppened the door" for her. She also gets sick.
5) Knowing about Teresas sickness Tomas decides to stay with.
6) Teresa lie about going on a business trip and in her suitcase she carries all of her clothes to stay with Tomas.
7) She moves her life from one place to another for Tomas.
8) We learn that Tomas in his past was a total player with the ladies. He has never had a long term relationship and he goes from woman to woman. He has a divorce and one son that he never sees.
9) Tomas refers to live your life without procupating of anything and he uses an actor going cold as an example.
10) Teresa breaks Tomas rules beacuse she stays in his bed, a rule that Tomas had strictly prohibited with all women.
11) Tomas thinks that religion and sexual relationships are seperate enterties.
12) Tomas compares Teresa with a child.
13) Sabina finds a job for Teresa.
14) Teresa dreams that she has to get naked, otherwise Tomas will shoot her.
15) Ana Karelina.
16) She enjoys the book.
17) Tomas is jelouse when he sees Teresa with her new male friend. But at the same time proud of her beauty
18) It hurts Teresa a lot.
19) They marrie because Tomas wants Teresa to feel secure and happy.
20) Its invaded by the soviets.
21) Tomas receives a job in Zurich but he decides to stay in Prague becasue of Teresa.
22) Teresa works as a photographer.
23) Teresa wanted to go to Zurich because she likes it more.
24) Bethoven has a relationship with Teresa and Tomas because when they first met Bethoven was being played in the hotel cafe.
2) Teresa is in´prague with Tomas and they sleep together.
3) Tomas dident want Teresa to sleep with him because he dosent like long term relationships.
4) While Teresa visits Tomas, she cries because she feels that Tomas has been the only one who has "oppened the door" for her. She also gets sick.
5) Knowing about Teresas sickness Tomas decides to stay with.
6) Teresa lie about going on a business trip and in her suitcase she carries all of her clothes to stay with Tomas.
7) She moves her life from one place to another for Tomas.
8) We learn that Tomas in his past was a total player with the ladies. He has never had a long term relationship and he goes from woman to woman. He has a divorce and one son that he never sees.
9) Tomas refers to live your life without procupating of anything and he uses an actor going cold as an example.
10) Teresa breaks Tomas rules beacuse she stays in his bed, a rule that Tomas had strictly prohibited with all women.
11) Tomas thinks that religion and sexual relationships are seperate enterties.
12) Tomas compares Teresa with a child.
13) Sabina finds a job for Teresa.
14) Teresa dreams that she has to get naked, otherwise Tomas will shoot her.
15) Ana Karelina.
16) She enjoys the book.
17) Tomas is jelouse when he sees Teresa with her new male friend. But at the same time proud of her beauty
18) It hurts Teresa a lot.
19) They marrie because Tomas wants Teresa to feel secure and happy.
20) Its invaded by the soviets.
21) Tomas receives a job in Zurich but he decides to stay in Prague becasue of Teresa.
22) Teresa works as a photographer.
23) Teresa wanted to go to Zurich because she likes it more.
24) Bethoven has a relationship with Teresa and Tomas because when they first met Bethoven was being played in the hotel cafe.
Quiz 1 James Bond
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
In the restaurant of a hotel in a small czech town.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza pays Tomas a visit they make love and she stays living there for a little while.
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
Tomas feels he can make an exception in his "erotic friendship" life and truly love a woman like her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She got the fever.
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Leave her living there with him while she gets better.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About her actual purpose of her trip to Prague, she goes there to find a job.
7 What does she really do?
Gets a job.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He got divorced time before, knew true love and from his heartbroken being starts eliminating love from his life and filling the void with erotic friendships.
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Kundera tries to explain to the reader how events in life are unexpected. Also tries to make clear that he beleives in destiny.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Reads the letters Sabina sends him (invades his privacy)
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Sabina as an erotic friendship and Tereza as true love.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
True love.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabina telling Tomas she want to have sex with him in her studio.
16 How does she react to the written material?
She dreams about it.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Torments Tereza even in her sleep (the two dreams she has)
19 Why do you think they marry?
Tomas wants to show her his true love for her and that's she's better than Sabina.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The Russians are invading Prague. And dubcek is returning.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
At a hospital in Zurich. He doensn't want to leave Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
As a photographer of the russian invasion.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Because her mother is ill.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
Symbolizes true love.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
True love.
In the restaurant of a hotel in a small czech town.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza pays Tomas a visit they make love and she stays living there for a little while.
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
Tomas feels he can make an exception in his "erotic friendship" life and truly love a woman like her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She got the fever.
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Leave her living there with him while she gets better.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About her actual purpose of her trip to Prague, she goes there to find a job.
7 What does she really do?
Gets a job.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He got divorced time before, knew true love and from his heartbroken being starts eliminating love from his life and filling the void with erotic friendships.
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Kundera tries to explain to the reader how events in life are unexpected. Also tries to make clear that he beleives in destiny.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Reads the letters Sabina sends him (invades his privacy)
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Sabina as an erotic friendship and Tereza as true love.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
True love.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabina telling Tomas she want to have sex with him in her studio.
16 How does she react to the written material?
She dreams about it.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Torments Tereza even in her sleep (the two dreams she has)
19 Why do you think they marry?
Tomas wants to show her his true love for her and that's she's better than Sabina.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The Russians are invading Prague. And dubcek is returning.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
At a hospital in Zurich. He doensn't want to leave Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
As a photographer of the russian invasion.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Because her mother is ill.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
Symbolizes true love.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
True love.
gaby quiz 1
11) Tomas believes that love making is completely apart from actually sleeping together. He thinks that to love someone is when you actually want to sleep with that person, not desiring to have sex with many others.
12) Tomas compares Tereza to a helpless child he must take care of. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream” (p.10)
13) Sabina was the one that found Tereza a job. “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague” (p.12)
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15) Tereza read the letters Sabina sent to Tomas. “So you’ve been rummaging in my letters!”
16) Tereza had dream where she had to watch Tomas as she was making love to Sabina. In the dream, to alleviate the pain of her heart she jabbed needles under her nails. “The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering”
17) Tomas feels jealous when she dances with a friend of his. “Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous.” (p.16)
18) Tereza starts having bad dreams all the time and he lies to her constantly until she finds the truth and he finally admits it making excuses. Their relationship just kept growing worse “Tereza saw herself threatened by women, all women” “But her jealousy thus tamed by day burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams”
19) They married because Tomas didn’t want to make Tereza suffer because of his infidelity, although he didn’t stop it “To assuage Tereza’s sufferings, he married her”
20) There was a war in Prague. “His country was occupied by Russian tanks”
21) Tomas first chose not to accept the job because he didn’t want to make Tereza leave her job, she was very exited about it. “If Tomas rejected the Swiss doctor’s offer without a second thought, it was for Tereza’s sake” (p.24)
22) Tereza was now a kind of reporter, she was in charge of taking pictures of the Russian tanks and what was happening. “After roaming the streets with her camera, she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists” (p.24)
23)Tereza decided to leave because situations could become hard for Thomas and Dubcek was back. People were also missing. “Now that Dubcek is back, things have changed” (p.24)
24) Tomas was thinking about “having” to go get Tereza back and be with her again. In the last quartet of Beethoven, the music said ‘must it be? It must be!’ And the movement was named ‘the difficult resolution.’
“This allusion to Beethoven was actually Tomas’s first step back to Tereza, because she was the one who had induced him to buy records of the Beethoven quartets and sonatas”
25) Tomas thought that chance was what originally made him be with Tereza. “And that woman, that personification of absolute fortuity…”
12) Tomas compares Tereza to a helpless child he must take care of. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream” (p.10)
13) Sabina was the one that found Tereza a job. “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague” (p.12)
14)
15) Tereza read the letters Sabina sent to Tomas. “So you’ve been rummaging in my letters!”
16) Tereza had dream where she had to watch Tomas as she was making love to Sabina. In the dream, to alleviate the pain of her heart she jabbed needles under her nails. “The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering”
17) Tomas feels jealous when she dances with a friend of his. “Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous.” (p.16)
18) Tereza starts having bad dreams all the time and he lies to her constantly until she finds the truth and he finally admits it making excuses. Their relationship just kept growing worse “Tereza saw herself threatened by women, all women” “But her jealousy thus tamed by day burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams”
19) They married because Tomas didn’t want to make Tereza suffer because of his infidelity, although he didn’t stop it “To assuage Tereza’s sufferings, he married her”
20) There was a war in Prague. “His country was occupied by Russian tanks”
21) Tomas first chose not to accept the job because he didn’t want to make Tereza leave her job, she was very exited about it. “If Tomas rejected the Swiss doctor’s offer without a second thought, it was for Tereza’s sake” (p.24)
22) Tereza was now a kind of reporter, she was in charge of taking pictures of the Russian tanks and what was happening. “After roaming the streets with her camera, she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists” (p.24)
23)Tereza decided to leave because situations could become hard for Thomas and Dubcek was back. People were also missing. “Now that Dubcek is back, things have changed” (p.24)
24) Tomas was thinking about “having” to go get Tereza back and be with her again. In the last quartet of Beethoven, the music said ‘must it be? It must be!’ And the movement was named ‘the difficult resolution.’
“This allusion to Beethoven was actually Tomas’s first step back to Tereza, because she was the one who had induced him to buy records of the Beethoven quartets and sonatas”
25) Tomas thought that chance was what originally made him be with Tereza. “And that woman, that personification of absolute fortuity…”
Andres Melagr quiz
1)Tomas and Tereza met for the first time in a small Czech town in a restaurant
2)Ten days later Tereza paid Tomas a visit and they had sex
3)Tomas had started to fall in love for Tereza. He saw her as a child
4.While Terza was staying with Tomas she got the flu
5.Tomas doesn’t know what to do after she goes, he doesn’t know if he wants to call her and open his life to her or just remain as it is.
6.Tersa lies when she says she is in Prague for a business trip when her intentions are to look for a job and stay living there.
7.What Tereza really does is to bring all her things to move her life with Tomas.
8.What we know about Tomas past is that he was married and he had a mistress called Sabina, she was one of many more. He never got sentimentally involved with any of them. He was a player.
.9.The rule that Tereza broke was the personal rule of Tomas, that no woman was to stay the night with him. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.”
11.Tomas believes that two separate entities are love and sex represented in the novel by Tereza and Sabine.
12.Tomas compares Tereza with a baby in a basket left alone, helpless and he thinks she needs protection.“child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13.It is Sabine who finds Teresa a job.
14.She dreams of many things. In one dream she has to see Tomas having sex with Sabine, in other, she is in a room with many other women (Tomas’ lovers) and she has to take her clothes off before Tomas shoots her.
15.Tereza reads Tomas letters that were written by Sabine.
16.Her reaction were the dreams.
17.He felt proud of her because he sees her more beautiful than every but he got jealous
18.His infidelity affect Tereza as she is hurt and he doesn’t like to see Tereza hurt
19.They marry because Tomas wanted to heal and calm Tereza´s pain.“assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20.There is an invasion of the Russian.
21.He gets offered a job in Zurich but he denies it because he likes Prague and he thinks Tereza too.
22.At this point she is not working because she quits and only takes photos for fun.
23.Because she liked Zurich
24.When Tereza first met Tomas there was a Beethoven symphony playing as background
2)Ten days later Tereza paid Tomas a visit and they had sex
3)Tomas had started to fall in love for Tereza. He saw her as a child
4.While Terza was staying with Tomas she got the flu
5.Tomas doesn’t know what to do after she goes, he doesn’t know if he wants to call her and open his life to her or just remain as it is.
6.Tersa lies when she says she is in Prague for a business trip when her intentions are to look for a job and stay living there.
7.What Tereza really does is to bring all her things to move her life with Tomas.
8.What we know about Tomas past is that he was married and he had a mistress called Sabina, she was one of many more. He never got sentimentally involved with any of them. He was a player.
.9.The rule that Tereza broke was the personal rule of Tomas, that no woman was to stay the night with him. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.”
11.Tomas believes that two separate entities are love and sex represented in the novel by Tereza and Sabine.
12.Tomas compares Tereza with a baby in a basket left alone, helpless and he thinks she needs protection.“child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13.It is Sabine who finds Teresa a job.
14.She dreams of many things. In one dream she has to see Tomas having sex with Sabine, in other, she is in a room with many other women (Tomas’ lovers) and she has to take her clothes off before Tomas shoots her.
15.Tereza reads Tomas letters that were written by Sabine.
16.Her reaction were the dreams.
17.He felt proud of her because he sees her more beautiful than every but he got jealous
18.His infidelity affect Tereza as she is hurt and he doesn’t like to see Tereza hurt
19.They marry because Tomas wanted to heal and calm Tereza´s pain.“assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20.There is an invasion of the Russian.
21.He gets offered a job in Zurich but he denies it because he likes Prague and he thinks Tereza too.
22.At this point she is not working because she quits and only takes photos for fun.
23.Because she liked Zurich
24.When Tereza first met Tomas there was a Beethoven symphony playing as background
Adolfo OWNS!!! the quiz.
1
Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
´in a small restaurant in a czech town
2 What happened 10 days later?
she payed him a visit, and the made love
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
he felt a strange love towards her
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
she got sick, therefore tayed on his flat for a week
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
decides to let her stay on his flat
6 What does Tereza lie about?
the reason she came to prague was not business but to visit tomas.
7 What does she really do?
go and see tomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He divorsed and calebrated this even more than the original wedding.
9 what does tomas believe?
tat we live life as a improvising acotr.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
he makes him feel atatched to her.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love and sex.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
roam into tomas stuff?
15 What does Tereza read?
Tomas private letters.
16 How does she react to the written material?
he becomes jelous and possesive avbout him, plus losses trust of him.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
Jelaus, yet, it made him like her even more.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Tereza is ruined, as she is living eternal returns of what she hateds most, of a bodies being the same, when she wants to make her body special somehow to tomas.
19 Why do you think they marry?
To make Tereza feel more secure.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
WAR, WAR, WAR!!!! the Soviets are Beaten the red stuff out of every praguean they find!!! oh no!!! (sorry i just had to do that)
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
in zurich, but does not accept it becouse tereza is not happy at zurich (que nena)
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
A photografer for a jorunal, thanks to sabina
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
she dislikes Zurich?
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
He relates to his way of thinking with the name of the quarter, ess muss sein, wich means it must be, bethoven also reminds him of tereza for its her ho talked him into buying his records.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
To start with, her beauty, as he feels the necesity to follow her when he fist saw her, now her innocence.
Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
´in a small restaurant in a czech town
2 What happened 10 days later?
she payed him a visit, and the made love
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
he felt a strange love towards her
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
she got sick, therefore tayed on his flat for a week
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
decides to let her stay on his flat
6 What does Tereza lie about?
the reason she came to prague was not business but to visit tomas.
7 What does she really do?
go and see tomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He divorsed and calebrated this even more than the original wedding.
9 what does tomas believe?
tat we live life as a improvising acotr.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
he makes him feel atatched to her.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love and sex.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
roam into tomas stuff?
15 What does Tereza read?
Tomas private letters.
16 How does she react to the written material?
he becomes jelous and possesive avbout him, plus losses trust of him.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
Jelaus, yet, it made him like her even more.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Tereza is ruined, as she is living eternal returns of what she hateds most, of a bodies being the same, when she wants to make her body special somehow to tomas.
19 Why do you think they marry?
To make Tereza feel more secure.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
WAR, WAR, WAR!!!! the Soviets are Beaten the red stuff out of every praguean they find!!! oh no!!! (sorry i just had to do that)
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
in zurich, but does not accept it becouse tereza is not happy at zurich (que nena)
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
A photografer for a jorunal, thanks to sabina
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
she dislikes Zurich?
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
He relates to his way of thinking with the name of the quarter, ess muss sein, wich means it must be, bethoven also reminds him of tereza for its her ho talked him into buying his records.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
To start with, her beauty, as he feels the necesity to follow her when he fist saw her, now her innocence.
quiz 1 iñaki
Iñaki Martínez Garmendia
Quiz 1
1. They met in a small Czech town
2. Ten days later Teresa visited Thomas. “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu.
3. He had come to feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.
4. She got sick with the flu.
5. He decides to stay with her.
6. She lies about her reason for coming to Prague, she says its for business while he really is there to visit Thomas.
7. She worked in a dark room in an illustrated weekly.
8. He is involved in a very strange sexual relationship “erotic friendship”.
9. By this Thomas refers to his decisions since he knows that he cant revert what ever happens.
10. She breaks Thomas’s rules because she sleeps with her full night, and this goes against his erotic friendship rules.
11. Thomas believed making love and having sex were two different things.
12. He compares her to little baby Moses flowing downstream, and being found and risen up
13. Sabina
14. She dreams that she has to sink needles into her fingers to relieve her psychological pain with physical pain.
15. Ana Karenina and Thomas personal letters “erotic friendship”.
16. She is very jealous of Thomas and her mistresses.
17. He thinks she looks more beautiful than ever and later he turns very jealous of her and his male friend.
18. Thomas infidelity affects the relationship very gravely; Teresa begins having very strange nightmares which could be considered suicidal tendencies.
19. They get married because Thomas feels it’s a way to make things better between them, even though he breaks his own rules just to assuage Teresa’s suffering.
20. The Soviet Union is taking over all adjacent countries to actual Russia.
21. He is offered a job in Switzerland and refuses to leave because he thinks Teresa wouldn’t like it.
22. In this section of the story Teresa is upgraded to journalist photographer.
23. She decides to leave because she’s attracted to the danger of photographing Russian and tanks and military.
24. Beethoven relates to Thomas thinking of Teresa because she introduced him to Beethoven.
25. He felt a sudden urge of compassion.
Quiz 1
1. They met in a small Czech town
2. Ten days later Teresa visited Thomas. “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu.
3. He had come to feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.
4. She got sick with the flu.
5. He decides to stay with her.
6. She lies about her reason for coming to Prague, she says its for business while he really is there to visit Thomas.
7. She worked in a dark room in an illustrated weekly.
8. He is involved in a very strange sexual relationship “erotic friendship”.
9. By this Thomas refers to his decisions since he knows that he cant revert what ever happens.
10. She breaks Thomas’s rules because she sleeps with her full night, and this goes against his erotic friendship rules.
11. Thomas believed making love and having sex were two different things.
12. He compares her to little baby Moses flowing downstream, and being found and risen up
13. Sabina
14. She dreams that she has to sink needles into her fingers to relieve her psychological pain with physical pain.
15. Ana Karenina and Thomas personal letters “erotic friendship”.
16. She is very jealous of Thomas and her mistresses.
17. He thinks she looks more beautiful than ever and later he turns very jealous of her and his male friend.
18. Thomas infidelity affects the relationship very gravely; Teresa begins having very strange nightmares which could be considered suicidal tendencies.
19. They get married because Thomas feels it’s a way to make things better between them, even though he breaks his own rules just to assuage Teresa’s suffering.
20. The Soviet Union is taking over all adjacent countries to actual Russia.
21. He is offered a job in Switzerland and refuses to leave because he thinks Teresa wouldn’t like it.
22. In this section of the story Teresa is upgraded to journalist photographer.
23. She decides to leave because she’s attracted to the danger of photographing Russian and tanks and military.
24. Beethoven relates to Thomas thinking of Teresa because she introduced him to Beethoven.
25. He felt a sudden urge of compassion.
Quiz 1 Jose Arias
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
In the restaurant of the hotel.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza went to Tomas house but she got ill apparently because of falling in love and stayed there for a week.
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
She considered him as a liberator and wanted to spend most of her time with him
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She was very ill
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
He allows her to stay even when he dislikes sleeping with other women
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About her actual purpose of staying in Prague
7 What does she really do?
Stays with tomas most of the time.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He was married but eventually divorced her wife and was not able to keep his son. The visits he made to his son were very limited and decided to abandon them completely
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
That life cannot be predicted and its events are very unexpected, which then tells us how Tomas lives on his life; Without warning and planning.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
By reading the letters of Sabina
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
The soul and the Body
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
To a string quartet of Beethoven in which he is based on the words “Ess Muss Sein” wich metaphorically mean the heaviness of a situation contrasting it with the lightness of Tereza
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina, in a newspaper
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
To obey Tomas or she was to be shot like many other women around him
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabina telling Tomas her wish to have sex in her studio and the meaning of it.
16 How does she react to the written material?
She has a dream where it actually happens.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealousy
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Tereza begins to feel like she is on Tomas’s way and as if she was a burden.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because they don’t really want to be apart, although at the same time they cannot have a stable relationship where the other one is the most important thing in their lives.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The Russians are invading Prague and there is no political stability or leader. The people are defenceless against these invaders.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
At Zurich. Because he is happy where he lives and thinks Tereza is too.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She is not really working for anyone. She takes pictures of the events happening in Prague and then she gives away the films to journalists who use it for their own work.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
To become something higher in life and experience new things.
In the restaurant of the hotel.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza went to Tomas house but she got ill apparently because of falling in love and stayed there for a week.
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
She considered him as a liberator and wanted to spend most of her time with him
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She was very ill
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
He allows her to stay even when he dislikes sleeping with other women
6 What does Tereza lie about?
About her actual purpose of staying in Prague
7 What does she really do?
Stays with tomas most of the time.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
He was married but eventually divorced her wife and was not able to keep his son. The visits he made to his son were very limited and decided to abandon them completely
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
That life cannot be predicted and its events are very unexpected, which then tells us how Tomas lives on his life; Without warning and planning.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
By reading the letters of Sabina
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
The soul and the Body
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
To a string quartet of Beethoven in which he is based on the words “Ess Muss Sein” wich metaphorically mean the heaviness of a situation contrasting it with the lightness of Tereza
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina, in a newspaper
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
To obey Tomas or she was to be shot like many other women around him
15 What does Tereza read?
A letter from Sabina telling Tomas her wish to have sex in her studio and the meaning of it.
16 How does she react to the written material?
She has a dream where it actually happens.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealousy
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Tereza begins to feel like she is on Tomas’s way and as if she was a burden.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because they don’t really want to be apart, although at the same time they cannot have a stable relationship where the other one is the most important thing in their lives.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The Russians are invading Prague and there is no political stability or leader. The people are defenceless against these invaders.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
At Zurich. Because he is happy where he lives and thinks Tereza is too.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She is not really working for anyone. She takes pictures of the events happening in Prague and then she gives away the films to journalists who use it for their own work.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
To become something higher in life and experience new things.
Quiz 1 Marithe Malagon
1)Where did Thomas meet Tereza?
At a restaurant
2)What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited Thomas at his house and stayed there about a week because she was ill.
3) How did Thomas feel about Tereza?
Strange since he was not acustomed of having a woman stay overnight, and this changed his lifestyle.
4)What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Thomas?
She got sick
5)What does Thomas decide to do?
He decides to let her stay with him until she feels better.
6)What does Tereza lie about?
She told Thomas that she came to Prague for buisness.
7)What does she really do?
She goes to Prague to see Thomas.
8)What do we learn about Thomas' past?
He is a womanizer and it's unusual for him to have a stable relationship with them. He is a light character.
9)It shows us that his ideologies of light and heavy, portray him as a light character, one without responsabilities or pressures.
10)How does Tereza break the rules about Thomas?
She comes to his house requiring attention and a comittment and that is the last thiing that Thomas is used to.
11)What two things does Thomas believe are separate entries?
For him body and soul or sex and love are totally different things.
12)What does Thomas compare Tereza to?
A song from Beethoven called, "Ess Muss Sein!" which he describes as heavy music just as Tereza is to his light personality.
13)Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina gives her a job at a newspaper.
14)What does Tereza dream she must do?
To talk to Sabina
15)What does Tereza read?
The book called "Anna Karenina". Which inspired the name of Terezas and Thomas' pet dog.
16)She likes the book.
17)Thomas feels jelous about Terezas new man friend.
18)Tereza feels like a burden to Thomas.
19) To help Tereza feel secure about their relationship.
20)At that moment in time they are invading Prague.
21) At Zurich
22) A photographer.
At a restaurant
2)What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited Thomas at his house and stayed there about a week because she was ill.
3) How did Thomas feel about Tereza?
Strange since he was not acustomed of having a woman stay overnight, and this changed his lifestyle.
4)What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Thomas?
She got sick
5)What does Thomas decide to do?
He decides to let her stay with him until she feels better.
6)What does Tereza lie about?
She told Thomas that she came to Prague for buisness.
7)What does she really do?
She goes to Prague to see Thomas.
8)What do we learn about Thomas' past?
He is a womanizer and it's unusual for him to have a stable relationship with them. He is a light character.
9)It shows us that his ideologies of light and heavy, portray him as a light character, one without responsabilities or pressures.
10)How does Tereza break the rules about Thomas?
She comes to his house requiring attention and a comittment and that is the last thiing that Thomas is used to.
11)What two things does Thomas believe are separate entries?
For him body and soul or sex and love are totally different things.
12)What does Thomas compare Tereza to?
A song from Beethoven called, "Ess Muss Sein!" which he describes as heavy music just as Tereza is to his light personality.
13)Who finds Tereza a job?
Sabina gives her a job at a newspaper.
14)What does Tereza dream she must do?
To talk to Sabina
15)What does Tereza read?
The book called "Anna Karenina". Which inspired the name of Terezas and Thomas' pet dog.
16)She likes the book.
17)Thomas feels jelous about Terezas new man friend.
18)Tereza feels like a burden to Thomas.
19) To help Tereza feel secure about their relationship.
20)At that moment in time they are invading Prague.
21) At Zurich
22) A photographer.
quiz 1 Daniela
Quiz 1 Daniela
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town. She had a ccompanied to him to the station and waited for him to board the train.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited him and they made love that same day she arrived “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
He had an inexplicable love for her, he felt she was a child. She was neither “mistress or wife”. He had an “exaggerating feeling of wanting to be beside her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She came down with a bad blue “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Let her stay with him until she was well again “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She lies about the reason on being in Prague(her visit), she makes tomas believe she’s only there because of business when actually she only came to see him.
7 What does she really do?
She moved with Thomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
That he had an “inaptitude for love”. Probably had any lovers before, being with Tereza was the “most beautiful moment he had experienced”.
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Shows Nietches idea of “eternal return” and his ideologies. Links to this situation because he relates the opposition of light and weight. Here it shows a situation where Terezas love and devotion to him is showed as a weight to tomas and the lightness of Tomas love towards Tereza.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Tereza breaks Tomas rules bby sleeping in Thomas bed which was something unknown and weird for him.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
His erotic friendships and Tereza.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?A child whom he had “taken from a bulrush basket that had been daubed with pitch and sent to the riverbank of his bed”.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Tomas asks Sabina to get Tereza a job "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job”.
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
She dreams about Thomas and Sabina making love and that takes her to roam through Thomas stuff.
15 What does Tereza read?
Love letters from Sabina to Thomas which talk about Sabina wanting to make love to him. Here she finds that Sabina is Thomas mistress. “you've been rummaging in my letters…”
16 How does she react to the written material?
She starts having bad dreams and is posseive of Thomas,she doesn’t trust him anymore which takes her to read the letters and talk to Sabina..
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
In a way he get’s jealous because he realizes that she could also have other man in her life, which take Thomas to appreciate her more and actually realize he really needs her.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?.
Tereza doesn’t trust him. That inexorably takes her to talk to Sabina.. She’s really nervous and when they move out of Prague she has the need to go back . She even has dreams where she feels just as any other of her mistress.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because Tomas wants to keep her and he does have a need of having her by his side.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?.
There’s war , its being invaded by Russians.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
In Zurich and he decides not to accept it because Tereza is not happy in Zurch, when they move Teresa actually goes back to Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She works in a journal and takes photos. She takes photo of all the surrounding chaos and she’s told she’s a good photographer and she’s offered to photograph other things but she rejects it because she actually wants to do work that portray an idea.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
She’s not happy in Zurch and she has nothing to do there.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When they first met, they were listening to Bethoven
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town. She had a ccompanied to him to the station and waited for him to board the train.
2 What happened 10 days later?
Tereza visited him and they made love that same day she arrived “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
He had an inexplicable love for her, he felt she was a child. She was neither “mistress or wife”. He had an “exaggerating feeling of wanting to be beside her.
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
She came down with a bad blue “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
Let her stay with him until she was well again “stayed a whole week in his flat with a flue”.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She lies about the reason on being in Prague(her visit), she makes tomas believe she’s only there because of business when actually she only came to see him.
7 What does she really do?
She moved with Thomas.
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
That he had an “inaptitude for love”. Probably had any lovers before, being with Tereza was the “most beautiful moment he had experienced”.
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Shows Nietches idea of “eternal return” and his ideologies. Links to this situation because he relates the opposition of light and weight. Here it shows a situation where Terezas love and devotion to him is showed as a weight to tomas and the lightness of Tomas love towards Tereza.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Tereza breaks Tomas rules bby sleeping in Thomas bed which was something unknown and weird for him.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
His erotic friendships and Tereza.
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?A child whom he had “taken from a bulrush basket that had been daubed with pitch and sent to the riverbank of his bed”.
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
Tomas asks Sabina to get Tereza a job "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job”.
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
She dreams about Thomas and Sabina making love and that takes her to roam through Thomas stuff.
15 What does Tereza read?
Love letters from Sabina to Thomas which talk about Sabina wanting to make love to him. Here she finds that Sabina is Thomas mistress. “you've been rummaging in my letters…”
16 How does she react to the written material?
She starts having bad dreams and is posseive of Thomas,she doesn’t trust him anymore which takes her to read the letters and talk to Sabina..
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
In a way he get’s jealous because he realizes that she could also have other man in her life, which take Thomas to appreciate her more and actually realize he really needs her.
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?.
Tereza doesn’t trust him. That inexorably takes her to talk to Sabina.. She’s really nervous and when they move out of Prague she has the need to go back . She even has dreams where she feels just as any other of her mistress.
19 Why do you think they marry?
Because Tomas wants to keep her and he does have a need of having her by his side.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?.
There’s war , its being invaded by Russians.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
In Zurich and he decides not to accept it because Tereza is not happy in Zurch, when they move Teresa actually goes back to Prague.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
She works in a journal and takes photos. She takes photo of all the surrounding chaos and she’s told she’s a good photographer and she’s offered to photograph other things but she rejects it because she actually wants to do work that portray an idea.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
She’s not happy in Zurch and she has nothing to do there.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When they first met, they were listening to Bethoven
Wednesday 29 August 2007
Quiz 1 Zyunzo
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
´He had first met Theresa about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town´
2 What happened 10 days later?
´Ten days later, she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.´
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
´He had come too feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.’
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
‘She stayed with him for a week, until she was well again then she went back to her town.’
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
‘There, he claimed the suitcase (it was large and enormously heavy) and took it to her home.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She leaves him, her suitcase contains all her life.
7 What does she really do?
She divorces and takes her son and a 3rd of his money
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
‘Ten years earlierhe had divorced his wife. He celebrated this as other celebrate a marriage’
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Eternal return, Thomas feels top compare lifes with past ones, to think about actions, without improvisation.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Theresa makes Thomas feel attached to her, like committed, he needs to be with her to make her happy.. he wants more freedom.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love relationships and sex
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
‘A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.’
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
‘It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza’
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
Theresa dreams she must get naked and be the same as all the girls to avoid being shot by Thomas.
15 What does Tereza read?
She reads a book by Ana Karenina
16 How does she react to the written material?
She finds it unusual, yet she likes it, it was one of the things she liked about Thomas.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous but also feels good about her because she managed to make her jealous. ‘he found her more beautiful than ever’
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Theresa is very hurt about it.
19 Why do you think they marry?
I think that Theresa wanted to marry Thomas more than he wanted to marry her and they did it to soothe her pain.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The soviets are invading.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
Thomas is offered a job in Zurich but doesn’t accept it for Theresa.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
as a professional photographer, Sabina helped her.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Theresa believes that the only way of moving away from her past is to leave.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When Theresa met Thomas at the café, she was listening to Beethoven.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
Thomas likes theresa’s innocence, she even compares her to a baby girl left in a river like moses: ‘Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river’
´He had first met Theresa about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town´
2 What happened 10 days later?
´Ten days later, she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.´
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
´He had come too feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger.’
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
‘She stayed with him for a week, until she was well again then she went back to her town.’
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
‘There, he claimed the suitcase (it was large and enormously heavy) and took it to her home.
6 What does Tereza lie about?
She leaves him, her suitcase contains all her life.
7 What does she really do?
She divorces and takes her son and a 3rd of his money
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
‘Ten years earlierhe had divorced his wife. He celebrated this as other celebrate a marriage’
9 Tomas believes ...`we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
Eternal return, Thomas feels top compare lifes with past ones, to think about actions, without improvisation.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
Theresa makes Thomas feel attached to her, like committed, he needs to be with her to make her happy.. he wants more freedom.
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
Love relationships and sex
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
‘A child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.’
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
‘It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza’
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
Theresa dreams she must get naked and be the same as all the girls to avoid being shot by Thomas.
15 What does Tereza read?
She reads a book by Ana Karenina
16 How does she react to the written material?
She finds it unusual, yet she likes it, it was one of the things she liked about Thomas.
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
He feels jealous but also feels good about her because she managed to make her jealous. ‘he found her more beautiful than ever’
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
Theresa is very hurt about it.
19 Why do you think they marry?
I think that Theresa wanted to marry Thomas more than he wanted to marry her and they did it to soothe her pain.
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
The soviets are invading.
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
Thomas is offered a job in Zurich but doesn’t accept it for Theresa.
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
as a professional photographer, Sabina helped her.
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
Theresa believes that the only way of moving away from her past is to leave.
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
When Theresa met Thomas at the café, she was listening to Beethoven.
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
Thomas likes theresa’s innocence, she even compares her to a baby girl left in a river like moses: ‘Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river’
Quiz 1 Valeria
1. Tomas met Tereza in a hotel restaurant in a small Czech town. "He had first met Tereza about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town..."
2. Ten days later, Tereza pays Tomas a visit. "...waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit."
3. Tomas felt a strange kind of love for her. He felt she was like a child brought to him. "He had come to fell an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger;she seemed a child to him..."
4. While Tereza is visiting Tomas, she becomes ill and stays with him for a week. "That night she came down with fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu."
5. Tomas decides to look after her. To stay with her. " He kept recalling her lying in bed...He knelt down next to her..."
6. Tereza lies about why she is in Prague. She tries to make Tomas believe she is there looking for a job. "...tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in...she was in Prague on business, perhaps to find a job."
7. She moves from her provincial hotel restaurant to Prague to be with Tomas. "...he immediately realized that the suitcase contained her life...she had left it at the station just until she could offer it to him."
8. We learn that i the past Tomas had been married and when he divorced his wife he found he was better off living the "bachelor's life". "...when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage...he could be fully himself as a bachelor."
9. Tomas says that we live life like an actor improvising "cold on stage" referring to his actions, to what he does and the way he lives his life. He does, however, think carefully about his long term decisions because he knows he can't come back from those. This links to the concept of eternal return the author talks about in chaoter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas's rules becuase he never saw only one woman and he has never spent the night with any of her mistresses. "The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life...He did not want word to get out that Tereza was sleeping at his place: spending the night together was the corpus delicti of love."
11. Tomas believed making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman where two different things. "two separate passions.Not merely different, but opposite."
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a child, a child brought to him. "she seemed a child...someone had put in a basket and sent downstream...to the riverbank of his bed."
13. Sabina found Tereza a job because Tomas asked her to. "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague."
14. Tereza dreams she watches Tomas and Sabina have sex. "Hoping to alleviate the pain...she jabbed needles under her fingernails."
15.Tereza reads the letters Sabina has sent to Tomas. "'So you've been rummaging in my letters!' She did not deny it."
16. She doesn't trust him and it makes her suffer. That's why she dreams she can see what Sabina talk about in her letters.
17.He feels that Tereza could be with anyone else, that Tomas wasn't really special. He sees her more beautiful than ever. "Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous."
18. Tereza sufferes more and more, and this is reflected in her dreams. She is nervous and jealous, though she tries to conceal it as best she can and "to believe waht Tomas told her." Tomas on the other hand keeps seeing Tereza's image when being with other women and so discovers he can only make love to them when he is drunk.
19.I think they get married because they don't want to suffer anymore. Or at leaste Tomas did not want Tereza to keep suffereng and so decides to break his own rules and marry her. Tomas loves her in a very strange way, though he is not dependent of her. "To assuage Tereza's sufferings, he married her... and gave her a puppy."
20. Prague is being invaded by Russians. "...his country was occupied by Russian tanks."
21. Tomas is offered a job in Zürich. He rejects it because he believes Tereza is happy in Prague, photographing the occupation. "If Tomas rejected the offer, it was for Tereza's sake...She had spent the whole first week of the occupation in a trance almost resemblinghappiness...roaming the streets with her camara..."
22. At this point, Tereza is a photographer and sells her pictures to other journalists. "...she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists, who actually fought over them."
23. Tereza found happiness facing danger. Now that the Russians were backing out, she had nothing to dedicate herself to and so she wanted to look for it somewhere else. "...days she walked through the streets of Prague taking pictures of Russians and looking danger in the face were the best of her life."
24. Beethoven makes Tomas think of Tereza because it was her who "induced him to buy records of Beethoven..." Also, one of Beethoven's quartets has a movment based on two motives: Must it be? It must be!
25. Tomas feels compassion brought him back to Tereza. He couldn't stand the thought of Tereza living alone in the occupied Prague. "But how long could he have been tortures by compassion? All his life? A year? Or a month? Or only a week?"
2. Ten days later, Tereza pays Tomas a visit. "...waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit."
3. Tomas felt a strange kind of love for her. He felt she was like a child brought to him. "He had come to fell an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger;she seemed a child to him..."
4. While Tereza is visiting Tomas, she becomes ill and stays with him for a week. "That night she came down with fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu."
5. Tomas decides to look after her. To stay with her. " He kept recalling her lying in bed...He knelt down next to her..."
6. Tereza lies about why she is in Prague. She tries to make Tomas believe she is there looking for a job. "...tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in...she was in Prague on business, perhaps to find a job."
7. She moves from her provincial hotel restaurant to Prague to be with Tomas. "...he immediately realized that the suitcase contained her life...she had left it at the station just until she could offer it to him."
8. We learn that i the past Tomas had been married and when he divorced his wife he found he was better off living the "bachelor's life". "...when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage...he could be fully himself as a bachelor."
9. Tomas says that we live life like an actor improvising "cold on stage" referring to his actions, to what he does and the way he lives his life. He does, however, think carefully about his long term decisions because he knows he can't come back from those. This links to the concept of eternal return the author talks about in chaoter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas's rules becuase he never saw only one woman and he has never spent the night with any of her mistresses. "The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life...He did not want word to get out that Tereza was sleeping at his place: spending the night together was the corpus delicti of love."
11. Tomas believed making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman where two different things. "two separate passions.Not merely different, but opposite."
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a child, a child brought to him. "she seemed a child...someone had put in a basket and sent downstream...to the riverbank of his bed."
13. Sabina found Tereza a job because Tomas asked her to. "It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague."
14. Tereza dreams she watches Tomas and Sabina have sex. "Hoping to alleviate the pain...she jabbed needles under her fingernails."
15.Tereza reads the letters Sabina has sent to Tomas. "'So you've been rummaging in my letters!' She did not deny it."
16. She doesn't trust him and it makes her suffer. That's why she dreams she can see what Sabina talk about in her letters.
17.He feels that Tereza could be with anyone else, that Tomas wasn't really special. He sees her more beautiful than ever. "Not until late that night, at home, did he admit to her he was jealous."
18. Tereza sufferes more and more, and this is reflected in her dreams. She is nervous and jealous, though she tries to conceal it as best she can and "to believe waht Tomas told her." Tomas on the other hand keeps seeing Tereza's image when being with other women and so discovers he can only make love to them when he is drunk.
19.I think they get married because they don't want to suffer anymore. Or at leaste Tomas did not want Tereza to keep suffereng and so decides to break his own rules and marry her. Tomas loves her in a very strange way, though he is not dependent of her. "To assuage Tereza's sufferings, he married her... and gave her a puppy."
20. Prague is being invaded by Russians. "...his country was occupied by Russian tanks."
21. Tomas is offered a job in Zürich. He rejects it because he believes Tereza is happy in Prague, photographing the occupation. "If Tomas rejected the offer, it was for Tereza's sake...She had spent the whole first week of the occupation in a trance almost resemblinghappiness...roaming the streets with her camara..."
22. At this point, Tereza is a photographer and sells her pictures to other journalists. "...she would hand the rolls of film to foreign journalists, who actually fought over them."
23. Tereza found happiness facing danger. Now that the Russians were backing out, she had nothing to dedicate herself to and so she wanted to look for it somewhere else. "...days she walked through the streets of Prague taking pictures of Russians and looking danger in the face were the best of her life."
24. Beethoven makes Tomas think of Tereza because it was her who "induced him to buy records of Beethoven..." Also, one of Beethoven's quartets has a movment based on two motives: Must it be? It must be!
25. Tomas feels compassion brought him back to Tereza. He couldn't stand the thought of Tereza living alone in the occupied Prague. "But how long could he have been tortures by compassion? All his life? A year? Or a month? Or only a week?"
Tuesday 28 August 2007
Quiz 1 Esteban
Answers to quiz 1
1. Tomas met Tereza during a medicine congress in a small Czech town: “He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town.”(p6) She was her waitress in the café from the hotel he was staying in.
2. 10 days later Tereza goes to Tomas` apartment and they make love: “Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.” (p6)
3. Tomas felt an instant love for her: “He had come to feel an inexplicable love for all but complete stranger”. (p6)
4. While Tereza was visiting Tomas she gets sick: “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu”. (p6)
5. Tomas decides to stay with her and take care of her for “a whole week”.
6. Tereza lies about her motivation to come to Prague. She says she came to work .“ She was in Prague for business… perhaps to find a job” (9)
7. The reason Tereza really goes to Prague is to “offer her life to Tomas”
8. We learn that Tomas divorced his wife ten years earlier and that he becomes a bachelor. “Ten years earlier, when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage. He understood he was not born to live side by side with any woman and could only be fully himself as a bachelor.”
9. Tomas` philosophy about life being a vivid improvisation without a previous rehearsal, is a reflection of his actions. That is why he thinks about his long term decisions and feelings, he knows there is no turning back once he has made them. “ We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come”. This also relates to the concept of eternal return mentioned in chapter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas’ rules when she makes him have sentimental attachments towards her (he spends the night with her) and therefore, making him feel the urge to see her often. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.” (P12)
11. Tomas believes that sex and love relationships are two different entities.
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a “child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13. Sabina finds Tereza a job: “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza”
14. In her dream Tereza must not allow Tomas to leave her in her room. “…convinced in her sleep that he meant to live her for good and she had to stop him.” In another dream she must stand in the corner of room while Tomas made love to Sabina. “ The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering.” In another dream she is surrounded by naked woman and she must get naked too in order to stop Thomas from shooting her.
15. Tereza is reading Ana Karenina. “She had a thick book under her arm. It was Ana Karenina.”
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17. When Tomas sees Tereza with her male friend feels jealous but at the same time proud of his Tereza, her beautiful and sweet Tereza. “Not until later that night did he admit to her he was jealous”. “Tomas found her more beautiful than ever.”
18. Tomas infidelity affects their relationship because it hurts Tereza. “But her jealousy thus tamed by day the burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams, each of which ended in a wail he could silence only by waking her”.
19. They marry in order to “assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20. Prague is taken over by the soviets
21. Tomas gets offered a job in Zurich, Switzerland but he rejects it “for Tereza’s sake.”
22. At this point Tereza is working as a photographer journalist.
23. Tereza decides to leave to move away from her past.
24. Beethoven relates to Tomas`s thoughts because his music was being played at the café where he met Tereza.
25. Tomas feel that Tereza innoncence is what brought them together. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river”
1. Tomas met Tereza during a medicine congress in a small Czech town: “He had first met Tereza in a small Czech town.”(p6) She was her waitress in the café from the hotel he was staying in.
2. 10 days later Tereza goes to Tomas` apartment and they make love: “Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived.” (p6)
3. Tomas felt an instant love for her: “He had come to feel an inexplicable love for all but complete stranger”. (p6)
4. While Tereza was visiting Tomas she gets sick: “That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu”. (p6)
5. Tomas decides to stay with her and take care of her for “a whole week”.
6. Tereza lies about her motivation to come to Prague. She says she came to work .“ She was in Prague for business… perhaps to find a job” (9)
7. The reason Tereza really goes to Prague is to “offer her life to Tomas”
8. We learn that Tomas divorced his wife ten years earlier and that he becomes a bachelor. “Ten years earlier, when he had divorced his wife, he celebrated the event the way others celebrate a marriage. He understood he was not born to live side by side with any woman and could only be fully himself as a bachelor.”
9. Tomas` philosophy about life being a vivid improvisation without a previous rehearsal, is a reflection of his actions. That is why he thinks about his long term decisions and feelings, he knows there is no turning back once he has made them. “ We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come”. This also relates to the concept of eternal return mentioned in chapter 1.
10. Tereza breaks Tomas’ rules when she makes him have sentimental attachments towards her (he spends the night with her) and therefore, making him feel the urge to see her often. “The important thing is to abide the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in a quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.” (P12)
11. Tomas believes that sex and love relationships are two different entities.
12. Tomas compares Tereza to a “child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream.”
13. Sabina finds Tereza a job: “It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza”
14. In her dream Tereza must not allow Tomas to leave her in her room. “…convinced in her sleep that he meant to live her for good and she had to stop him.” In another dream she must stand in the corner of room while Tomas made love to Sabina. “ The sight of it caused Tereza intolerable suffering.” In another dream she is surrounded by naked woman and she must get naked too in order to stop Thomas from shooting her.
15. Tereza is reading Ana Karenina. “She had a thick book under her arm. It was Ana Karenina.”
16.
17. When Tomas sees Tereza with her male friend feels jealous but at the same time proud of his Tereza, her beautiful and sweet Tereza. “Not until later that night did he admit to her he was jealous”. “Tomas found her more beautiful than ever.”
18. Tomas infidelity affects their relationship because it hurts Tereza. “But her jealousy thus tamed by day the burst forth all the more savagely in her dreams, each of which ended in a wail he could silence only by waking her”.
19. They marry in order to “assuage Tereza`s sufferings”.
20. Prague is taken over by the soviets
21. Tomas gets offered a job in Zurich, Switzerland but he rejects it “for Tereza’s sake.”
22. At this point Tereza is working as a photographer journalist.
23. Tereza decides to leave to move away from her past.
24. Beethoven relates to Tomas`s thoughts because his music was being played at the café where he met Tereza.
25. Tomas feel that Tereza innoncence is what brought them together. “Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. He couldn`t very well let a basket with a child in it float down a stormy river”
Analysis of Section 2 - Soul and Body
Tereza's perspective on her relationship with Tomas complicates the story told in
Part I. Kundera makes Tereza just as sympathetic as Thomas; her heaviness seems noble and beautiful. Unlike Tomas, she takes everything in her life seriously, from sexuality to tiny, significant signs.
Tereza's heaviness of being causes her to suffer horribly; her mother's torments weigh heavily on Tereza, as does Tomas's infidelity. Still, the heaviness also allows Tereza to find meaning and beauty in her life, a benefit of heaviness the narrator posited in the opening of the novel. Tereza imbues coincidences with deep meaning. She believes, therefore, that each choice she makes is predestined. She suffers none of Tomas's indecision; while he agonizes over the multiplicity of choices and paths availabl e, she feels calmly confident that each choice she makes is the only possible one.
This second section of The Unbearable Lightness of Being suggests that perhaps lightness and heaviness are not polar opposites. Tomas and Tereza represent different sides of the dichotomy, but both are capable of feeling the pull of the other side, and hence fall in love. Tomas falls in love with Tereza partly because he wants to feel heaviness. Tereza learns some lightness from Tomas; this lightness causes her to risk her life for her country, and then leave Czechoslovakia abruptly, and to enjoy t he company, friendship and eroticism of her husband's mistress, Sabina.
Kundera associates the body with lightness, and the soul with heaviness. He associates Tereza with the soul—a fitting association, considering her identification as a heavy character. Indeed, the body repulses Tereza, and she tries to live entirely as a soul.
Part 2, in portraying the free Western world, contradicts assumptions that political freedom means automatic happiness for individuals. Politically free Switzerland, where Tomas and Tereza move, does not offer Tereza the communities of dissidents or journalists to which she belonged in Prague. The people she meets in Switzerland treat her badly—the magazine editor tells Tereza Prague's problems are no longer fashionable, for example.
Part I. Kundera makes Tereza just as sympathetic as Thomas; her heaviness seems noble and beautiful. Unlike Tomas, she takes everything in her life seriously, from sexuality to tiny, significant signs.
Tereza's heaviness of being causes her to suffer horribly; her mother's torments weigh heavily on Tereza, as does Tomas's infidelity. Still, the heaviness also allows Tereza to find meaning and beauty in her life, a benefit of heaviness the narrator posited in the opening of the novel. Tereza imbues coincidences with deep meaning. She believes, therefore, that each choice she makes is predestined. She suffers none of Tomas's indecision; while he agonizes over the multiplicity of choices and paths availabl e, she feels calmly confident that each choice she makes is the only possible one.
This second section of The Unbearable Lightness of Being suggests that perhaps lightness and heaviness are not polar opposites. Tomas and Tereza represent different sides of the dichotomy, but both are capable of feeling the pull of the other side, and hence fall in love. Tomas falls in love with Tereza partly because he wants to feel heaviness. Tereza learns some lightness from Tomas; this lightness causes her to risk her life for her country, and then leave Czechoslovakia abruptly, and to enjoy t he company, friendship and eroticism of her husband's mistress, Sabina.
Kundera associates the body with lightness, and the soul with heaviness. He associates Tereza with the soul—a fitting association, considering her identification as a heavy character. Indeed, the body repulses Tereza, and she tries to live entirely as a soul.
Part 2, in portraying the free Western world, contradicts assumptions that political freedom means automatic happiness for individuals. Politically free Switzerland, where Tomas and Tereza move, does not offer Tereza the communities of dissidents or journalists to which she belonged in Prague. The people she meets in Switzerland treat her badly—the magazine editor tells Tereza Prague's problems are no longer fashionable, for example.
Section 2 - Soul and Body
SECTION TWO EXAMINES PRECISELY THE SAME STORY AS TOLD IN SECTION 1 ONLY FROM TEREZA´S PERSPECTIVE.
1 After arriving at Tomas´s flat for the first time, how does Tereza feel?
2 She believes that the mind and the body are two separate entities. What are her opinions of her body?
3 Tereza looks like her mother, what do we learn about her Mother´s life. (include who she married, etc.)
4 During Tereza´s childhood, how does her Mother behave towards her?
5 How does her Mother combat the reality of her faded beauty?
6 What does Tereza use as a method of escapism?
7 What music does she hear that gives her comfort?
8 Describe the coincidences that occur on the day that Tomas and Tereza meet.
9 The second time Tereza visits Tomas, she arrives with her heavy suitcase and Anna Karenina, hoping to enter Tomas's world. What do you think Tomas is to her at this point in the novel?
10 When she and Tomas make love, she screams and keeps her eyes fixed on the ceiling. Her scream is "aimed at crippling the senses"; she screams in an attempt to make sex about the spirit, rather than the body. What does she think about her body?
11 In Prague, Tereza's natural intelligence and self-education help her learn photography. She moves from darkroom assistant to staff photographer with Sabina's help. How do her and Sabina celebrate her success?
12 What is Tomas´s reaction to this event? How does he feel?
13 Tomas does not differentiate between Tereza's body and the bodies of other women. How does this make Tereza feel?
14 What reasons may Tereza have for returning to her mother?
15 Thinking constantly of Tomas's affairs, Tereza decides to try and make other women's bodies something she and Tomas share, rather than something that divides them. Describe how she does this.
1 After arriving at Tomas´s flat for the first time, how does Tereza feel?
2 She believes that the mind and the body are two separate entities. What are her opinions of her body?
3 Tereza looks like her mother, what do we learn about her Mother´s life. (include who she married, etc.)
4 During Tereza´s childhood, how does her Mother behave towards her?
5 How does her Mother combat the reality of her faded beauty?
6 What does Tereza use as a method of escapism?
7 What music does she hear that gives her comfort?
8 Describe the coincidences that occur on the day that Tomas and Tereza meet.
9 The second time Tereza visits Tomas, she arrives with her heavy suitcase and Anna Karenina, hoping to enter Tomas's world. What do you think Tomas is to her at this point in the novel?
10 When she and Tomas make love, she screams and keeps her eyes fixed on the ceiling. Her scream is "aimed at crippling the senses"; she screams in an attempt to make sex about the spirit, rather than the body. What does she think about her body?
11 In Prague, Tereza's natural intelligence and self-education help her learn photography. She moves from darkroom assistant to staff photographer with Sabina's help. How do her and Sabina celebrate her success?
12 What is Tomas´s reaction to this event? How does he feel?
13 Tomas does not differentiate between Tereza's body and the bodies of other women. How does this make Tereza feel?
14 What reasons may Tereza have for returning to her mother?
15 Thinking constantly of Tomas's affairs, Tereza decides to try and make other women's bodies something she and Tomas share, rather than something that divides them. Describe how she does this.
Monday 27 August 2007
Quiz 1
For each of these questions, answer in full and include a quote.
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
2 What happened 10 days later?
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
6 What does Tereza lie about?
7 What does she really do?
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
15 What does Tereza read?
16 How does she react to the written material?
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
19 Why do you think they marry?
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
1 Where did Tomas meet Teresa?
2 What happened 10 days later?
3 How did Tomas feel about Tereza?
4 What happened to Tereza while she was visiting Tomas?
5 What does Tomas decide to do?
6 What does Tereza lie about?
7 What does she really do?
8 What do we learn about Tomas` past?
9 Tomas believes ...`wer live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold`. What does this tell us about Tomas` ideologies on life and also relate this back to concepts of life in chapter 1.
10 How does Tereza break Tomas` rules?
11 What two thing does Tomas believe are separate enterties?
12 What does Tomas compare Tereza to?
13 Who finds Tereza a job?
14 What does Tereza dream that she must do?
15 What does Tereza read?
16 How does she react to the written material?
17 How does Tomas feel when he sees Tereza with a male friend?
18 How does Tomas` infidelity affect their relationship?
19 Why do you think they marry?
20 What is politically happening in Prague?
21 Where is Tomas offered a job and why does he chose not to accept it?
22 At this point, what is Tereza working as?
23 Why does Tereza decide to leave?
24 How does Beethoven relate to Tomas` thinking?
25 What does Tomas feel brought him together with Tereza?
Sunday 26 August 2007
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE EDRON
WELCOME YEAR 13!
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