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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to H.H.'s first attempt to tell his story?
(a) He believes the journey is not worth remembering.
(b) He loses his journal.
(c) He is brought to a halt by a single, small episode.
(d) He is too sad to remember the events.

2. In Part I, what holds up the journey's progress in a small provincial town?
(a) The Prince of the provinces.
(b) The Journey leader quits.
(c) The opposition of Saturn and the moon.
(d) Terrible flooding.

3. In the beginning of Part II, how does H.H. say the character's disappearance came about?
(a) It is because of an accident.
(b) It is a link in a chain of disasterous events.
(c) That character has an emergency at home.
(d) That character leaves the League.

4. Who preserves the memory of Hohenstaufen?
(a) The power of the crown gardians.
(b) Urach and Staufen.
(c) The League Justice.
(d) Bopfingen.

5. According to H.H., what does the disappearance of a particular member threaten?
(a) The secrecy of the League.
(b) The future of the League.
(c) The value and meaning of everything, even life.
(d) Leo's ability to perform magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to H.H., what must the historian do to allow meaning into a narrative?

2. Who or what occupies the narrator's thoughts the most on the journey in Part I?

3. What does the narrator say about Leo at the end of Part I?

4. According to H.H. what is new to the group in Part II?

5. In Part I, what does the narrator realize about the Journey East?

(see the answer key)

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