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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using which words does Zeno describe Giovanna?

2. How does Zeno identify Giovanni Malfenti?

3. How does Zeno say he felt after a session of childhood smoking?

4. What did Guido do better than Zeno?

5. What did Zeno's relatives reveal about his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did Zeno's father regain consciousness and return to normal before he died?

2. What does the doctor apologize for in the preface? Why?

3. How did Zeno behave in the company of Giovanni's daughters?

4. Who asked Zeno to write his own autobiography? Why?

5. How does Zeno say his future father-in-law treated him?

6. Why does the doctor say he published Zeno's memoirs?

7. What two events does Zeno say stopped him from stealing?

8. How did Zeno escape from the sanatorium?

9. What was the last thing Zeno's father did before he died?

10. Why did Zeno become upset with the doctor who had the electricity machine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Respond to Zeno's behavior of marking anniversaries and other events with L.C.

1) Does this make the anniversary or event seem less important?

2) Does it seem that Zeno makes smoking the matter of chief importance in his life?

Essay Topic 2

From Chapter 1, respond to Zeno's assertion that you can only maintain the noble attitude you struck by making a resolution by actually breaking and renewing the resolution.

Essay Topic 3

Respond to Zeno's desire to fall in live with Ada and marry her.

1) Why does he choose her?

2) What qualities in Ada does he enjoy besides her looks?

3) Do they have anything in common?

4) Can someone choose to fall in love?

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