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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. How does Zeno describe his grief when his mother died?

2. How did Zeno try to impress Ada and her sisters?

3. What did the doctor say when Zeno asked him whether there was any hope?

4. Whose idea was it to get the doctor when Zeno's father became ill?

5. How did Zeno get his first cigarette?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Zeno marry Augusta?

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

4. What does Zeno write about tears and faults?

5. What does Zeno say he thinks will happen to pain and pleasure after death?

6. How did Zeno's wife seem to feel about the idea of him going into the sanatorium?

7. Why did Zeno go to see Dr. Canestrini?

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

9. How did Ada behave towards Zeno while he was intent on falling in love with her?

10. Did Zeno tell Augusta that he loved her before they were married?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Respond to Zeno's marriage to Augusta after asking two of her other sisters to marry him.

1) Describe the opinion you think each sister would have of him after his proposal.

2) Describe what Alberta and Ada might think of Augusta's chances for a happy marriage.

3) Describe how Augusta might feel marrying a man she loves though she knows he loves her sister.

Essay Topic 2

Zeno seems to think that death washes a person's flaws clean.

1) Give examples from the book that illustrate this thinking?

2) Why does Zeno seem to love some people more when they are dead?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the way Zeno feels about his father before he learns that he is dying with the way he feels about him once he learns that he is ill, and there's no hope.

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