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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, which of the following did the narrator describe as a form of intimacy that was not right?
(a) Sex.
(b) Praying.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Eating.

2. Which of the following was the War in which Musil served?
(a) World War II.
(b) Austro-Hungarian War.
(c) Korean War.
(d) World War I.

3. What did the judge state that the defendant did regularly with other people in Chapter 30?
(a) Deceived them.
(b) Blame them.
(c) Steal from them.
(d) Fight them.

4. Who arrived at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Count.
(b) Arnheim.
(c) Tuzzi.
(d) Manheim.

5. Who was Diotoma's husband?
(a) Leonard.
(b) Tuzzi.
(c) Ulrich.
(d) Arnheim.

6. What did the issue of sanity do for the person in question in Chapter 32?
(a) Removed obstacles.
(b) Offered sympathy.
(c) Lighten the sentence.
(d) Bring forth a pardon.

7. Who was on trial in Chapter 30?
(a) Clarisse.
(b) Moosbrugger.
(c) Bonadea.
(d) Arnheim.

8. Where did Ulrich spend time with his lover?
(a) Both - in private quarters and out in public.
(b) In private quarters.
(c) Out in public.
(d) In the rural countryside.

9. Whom of the following did Ulrich visit in Chapter 21?
(a) Moosbrugger.
(b) Leinsdorf.
(c) Stallenbach.
(d) Nigel.

10. Which of the following countries were close-knit rivals in Chapter 21?
(a) Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia.
(b) England, Holland, and Germany.
(c) France, England, and Luxembourg.
(d) Austria, Germany, and Prussia.

11. Which of the following groups of writers shared the same literary lineage with Musil?
(a) Goethe, Marx, and Whitmore.
(b) Milton, Yeats, and Balzac.
(c) Tolstoy, Balzac, and Dostoevsky.
(d) Spencer, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare.

12. Which of the following did Ulrich notice that the country that he visited was moving toward in Chapter 21?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Political stalemate.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Democracy.

13. Whose sanity was under question in Chapter 32?
(a) Clarisse's.
(b) Ulrich's.
(c) Moosbrugger's.
(d) Bonadea's.

14. Which of the following specialty areas best described Ulrich's education?
(a) Music.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Arts.
(d) Philosophies.

15. Which of the following types of commoner was Diotoma's husband?
(a) Highest.
(b) Lowest.
(c) Everyday.
(d) Mediocre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ulrich do to the woman in Chapter 12?

2. Which of the following traits did Ulrich seem most enamored by in his lover?

3. Which of the following cultural groups was not popular in Europe?

4. Who influenced Ulrich in his study?

5. Which of the following trait types were discovered with the newness of the Century?

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