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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of the book, why does Aschenbach take a walk?
(a) To meet a friend.
(b) To buy groceries.
(c) To pick flowers.
(d) To clear his mind.

2. What is the cause of Aschenbach's anxiety?
(a) His failure as a writer.
(b) His poverty.
(c) The approaching war.
(d) The death of a friend.

3. What did Aschenbach want but never get?
(a) A daughter.
(b) A son.
(c) A wife.
(d) A brother.

4. Usually Aschenbach feels ________ at his summer house.
(a) Crazy.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Ill.
(d) Productive.

5. The approaching war referenced is __________.
(a) World War One.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aschenbach look, physically?

2. Where does Aschenbach live?

3. What does Aschenbach think the benefit of a vacation will be?

4. What type of school did Aschenbach attend?

5. What expression does the man at the chapel give to Aschenbach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aschenbach think he hesitated to approach Tadzio?

2. What effect did Aschenbach's parents' attributes have on him?

3. How does Aschenbach's vision of Socrates and Phaedrus translate to him and Tadzio?

4. How would you compare Aschenbach as a youth to the Aschenbach we meet in the beginning of the book?

5. Does Aschenbach look at Tadzio analytically or with glorification?

6. As Aschenbach is more and more obsessed with Tadzio, how does Aschenbach's writing now differ from before?

7. Why does Aschenbach decide to leave Venice? Why is this a typical response for him to have?

8. What are Aschenbach's feelings and justifications of his transformation at the beginning of Part Five?

9. What is wrong with Aschenbach's physical health?

10. How does Aschenbach see Tadzio? What does he compare Tadzio to?

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