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…”