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  • 1. In what year was the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being released?
A) 1968
B) 1984
C) 1990
D) 1988
  • 2. The film is an adaptation of a novel written by whom?
A) Philip Kaufman
B) Milan Kundera
C) Jean-Claude Carrière
D) Daniel Day-Lewis
  • 3. Who directed the film?
A) Jean-Claude Carrière
B) Philip Kaufman
C) Milan Kundera
D) Daniel Day-Lewis
  • 4. Who co-wrote the screenplay with Philip Kaufman?
A) Milan Kundera
B) Juliette Binoche
C) Jean-Claude Carrière
D) Daniel Day-Lewis
  • 5. Which actor stars as Tomas?
A) Jean-Claude Carrière
B) Philip Kaufman
C) Franz
D) Daniel Day-Lewis
  • 6. Which actress plays Sabina?
A) Tereza
B) Juliette Binoche
C) No other actress
D) Lena Olin
  • 7. Which actress plays Tereza?
A) No other actress
B) Juliette Binoche
C) Lena Olin
D) Sabina
  • 8. What is Tomas's profession in communist Czechoslovakia?
A) Photographer
B) Brain surgeon
C) Engineer
D) University professor
  • 9. What is Sabina's profession in Prague?
A) Photographer
B) Brain surgeon
C) Waitress
D) Artist
  • 10. Where do Tomas and Tereza first encounter each other?
A) Prague
B) Geneva
C) A spa town
D) The US
  • 11. What is Tereza's profession when Tomas meets her?
A) Artist
B) Photographer
C) Waitress
D) University professor
  • 12. Who helps Tereza find work as a photographer?
A) Sabina
B) The engineer
C) Franz
D) A Party official
  • 13. What historical event prompts Tereza and Tomas to become more attached?
A) The confiscation of Tomas's passport
B) The Prague Spring
C) The Soviet Army invasion of Czechoslovakia
D) The drafting of the repudiation letter
  • 14. What does Tereza photograph during the confusion of the invasion?
A) The spa town
B) Tomas and Sabina
C) Demonstrations against the Soviet forces
D) The StB secret police
  • 15. To whom does Tereza hand the rolls of film to smuggle to the West?
A) Sabina
B) Franz
C) Foreigners
D) The engineer
  • 16. Which country do Tomas, Sabina, and Tereza flee to?
A) Switzerland
B) The US
C) Germany
D) France
  • 17. Who does Sabina meet in Geneva?
A) Franz
B) Tomas
C) A Party official
D) The engineer
  • 18. What is Franz's profession in Geneva?
A) Window washer
B) Engineer
C) University professor
D) Brain surgeon
  • 19. Why does Sabina abandon Franz?
A) She misses Prague
B) He refuses to leave his wife
C) He works for the StB
D) She feels he would emotionally weigh her down
  • 20. Why does Tereza leave Switzerland and return to Czechoslovakia?
A) She misses her photography job
B) She finds the Swiss inhospitable and Tomas womanizes
C) She is summoned by the StB
D) She wants to join Franz
  • 21. What happens to Tomas's passport when he follows Tereza back to Czechoslovakia?
A) It is confiscated
B) It is stolen by Sabina
C) It is lost in Geneva
D) It is renewed
  • 22. Why has Tomas been rendered a political dissident?
A) His affair with Sabina
B) His refusal to photograph protests
C) His flight to Switzerland
D) A scathing article he wrote criticizing the regime
  • 23. What does the régime demand Tomas sign?
A) A confession of espionage
B) A Party membership card
C) An application to work as a window washer
D) A letter repudiating his article
  • 24. What new job does Tomas find after being blacklisted from medicine?
A) Waiters' assistant
B) Engineer
C) Window washer
D) Photographer
  • 25. Who seduces Tomas while he is working his new job?
A) Tereza
B) Franz's wife
C) The daughter of a high-ranking Party official
D) Sabina
  • 26. Who propositions Tereza while she is working as a waitress?
A) A foreign smuggler
B) An engineer
C) A university professor
D) A high-ranking Party official
  • 27. What does Tereza fear the engineer might be?
A) A spy from Switzerland
B) A window washer
C) A Party official
D) An informant for the StB secret police
  • 28. Where does Tereza contemplate suicide?
A) At a canal bank
B) In Geneva
C) In a spa town
D) On a country road
  • 29. Who stops Tereza from committing suicide?
A) Sabina
B) The engineer
C) Franz
D) Tomas
  • 30. Where do Tomas and Tereza move to escape Prague city life?
A) Geneva
B) A village in the countryside
C) The US
D) A spa town
  • 31. Who welcomes Tomas and Tereza to the village?
A) A high-ranking Party official
B) Franz
C) An old patient of Tomas's
D) Sabina
  • 32. Where does Sabina go after leaving Switzerland?
A) Cunha
B) The US
C) Prague
D) Vienna
  • 33. How does Sabina learn of Tomas and Tereza's fate?
A) Franz tells her
B) A letter
C) A phone call
D) A newspaper article
  • 34. What happens to Tomas and Tereza according to the letter received by Sabina?
A) They successfully flee back to Switzerland
B) They are arrested by the StB
C) They are killed in an automobile accident
D) They separate permanently
  • 35. What vehicle are Tomas and Tereza driving just before the accident?
A) A police vehicle
B) A farm truck
C) A train
D) A luxury car
  • 36. What is the weather like during the final scene of the film?
A) Sunny
B) Snowing
C) Foggy
D) Raining
  • 37. How does Tomas express his feelings to Tereza just before the accident?
A) He worries about the StB following them
B) He complains about the village life
C) He expresses regret over his confiscated passport
D) He peacefully expresses how happy and relieved he finally feels
  • 38. What nationality was the production of the film?
A) French
B) American
C) British
D) Czech
  • 39. What kind of cast does the film feature?
A) Entirely American
B) Strictly British
C) Largely European
D) Exclusively Czech
  • 40. In which country was the film shot?
A) Austria
B) Germany
C) France
D) Switzerland
  • 41. What was combined with new material shot in Lyon to depict the Soviet invasion?
A) News clippings
B) Animated sequences
C) Archival footage
D) Documentary voiceovers
  • 42. In which French city was new material shot to depict the Soviet invasion?
A) Luxeuil-les-Bains
B) Lyon
C) Boulogne
D) Paris
  • 43. Where was the scene shot in which Tomas has sex with a woman while cleaning windows?
A) Thermal baths in Luxeuil-les-Bains
B) Administrative Appeal Court
C) Boulogne Studios
D) Hôtel de Beauvais
  • 44. In which arrondissement of Paris was the Hôtel de Beauvais located?
A) 4th arrondissement
B) 8th arrondissement
C) 1st arrondissement
D) 16th arrondissement
  • 45. What is the Hôtel de Beauvais now used as?
A) Administrative Appeal Court
B) A museum
C) A public library
D) A luxury hotel
  • 46. Filming also took place at the thermal baths in which location?
A) Lyon
B) Boulogne
C) Paris
D) Luxeuil-les-Bains
  • 47. In which department are the thermal baths where filming took place located?
A) Seine-et-Marne
B) Haute-Saône
C) Rhône
D) Bouches-du-Rhône
  • 48. Where were the interior scenes of the film shot?
A) Hôtel de Beauvais
B) Warner Home Video
C) Boulogne Studios
D) The Criterion Collection
  • 49. Which commentator argued that the film must be viewed in a different light with the book as only one source of inspiration?
A) Sven Nykvist
B) Cattrysse Patrick
C) Walter Murch
D) Jean-Claude Carrière
  • 50. Which composer's classical pieces are extensively used in the film's soundtrack?
A) Philip Kaufman
B) Marta Kubišová
C) Vojtěch Jochec
D) Leoš Janáček
  • 51. Who performed the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" in Czech for the film?
A) Marta Kubišová
B) Lena Olin
C) Vojtěch Jochec
D) Jarmila Šuláková
  • 52. What traditional Czechoslovak folk song is featured in the film?
A) "On an Overgrown Path"
B) "Joj, Joj, Joj"
C) "Hey Jude"
D) "Lightness of Being"
  • 53. What approval rating does the film hold on Rotten Tomatoes?
A) 100%
B) 73%
C) 50%
D) 86%
  • 54. On how many reviews is the Rotten Tomatoes approval rating based?
A) 50 reviews
B) 100 reviews
C) 29 reviews
D) 17 reviews
  • 55. Based on how many critics was the Metacritic score assigned?
A) 17 critics
B) 5 critics
C) 29 critics
D) 100 critics
  • 56. What type of reviews did Metacritic's score indicate?
A) "Generally favorable" reviews
B) "Mostly unfavorable"
C) "Universal acclaim"
D) "Mixed or average"
  • 57. How many Academy Awards was the film nominated for?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Two
D) One
  • 58. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography?
A) Philip Kaufman
B) Jean-Claude Carrière
C) Walter Murch
D) Sven Nykvist
  • 59. What rank did the American Film Institute give the film in its 2002 list AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions?
A) 87th
B) 86th
C) 73rd
D) 100th
  • 60. Who released a digitally restored version of the film on DVD in November 1999?
A) Warner Home Video
B) Boulogne Studios
C) The Criterion Collection
D) Academy Film Archive
  • 61. When was the 2-disc special edition DVD re-released by Warner Home Video?
A) 2019
B) December 29, 1988
C) February 28, 2006
D) November 1999
  • 62. Which organization preserved The Unbearable Lightness of Being in 2019?
A) American Film Institute
B) Academy Film Archive
C) Warner Home Video
D) The Criterion Collection
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