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’