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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. What does the narrator says is impairing him as he starts his narration early in Part I?
(a) His confidence and recollection.
(b) An injury to his head.
(c) An injury to his leg.
(d) His eyesight.

2. What does H.H. says happens when he examines things too closely?
(a) They become a heavy burden.
(b) They slip away and dissolve.
(c) THey are imprinted forever in his memory.
(d) They come into sharp relief.

3. What is it that H.H. says a historian searches for in events?
(a) The truth.
(b) The center, the common standpoint.
(c) The relevance of the event.
(d) The importance of the matter.

4. In Part I, what does the narrator say the conquered nations are ready to believe in?
(a) Long lasting peace.
(b) Their freedom.
(c) A time of great exploration.
(d) Things beyond reality.

5. What does the deserter wish to do some time later?
(a) Gain the confidence of the League Speaker.
(b) Be forgiven and rejoin the League.
(c) Write his memoirs for publication.
(d) Expose the League's secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, what does H.H. say is very difficult for him to do?

2. Who does the narrator meet in Part I and love immediately?

3. What leads to heated arguments within the group at the beginning of Part II?

4. Where do many of the journey members believe League documents are deposited?

5. In Part I, what does the narrator say world history often seems like?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part II, does H.H. believe he can tell his story?

2. In Part II, what begins to happen to the unity of the journey members?

3. Describe Leo's characteristics as put forth in Part II by H.H.

4. In Part II, what does H.H. say happens when he tries to think about the events of his journey?

5. Describe what happens to upset the journey members as Part II begins.

6. What reason does H.H. give in Part I about readers of his memoirs not comprehending them?

7. In Part I, why does H.H. say it is his "destiny" to join in a great experience?

8. In Part II, what does H.H. say is a well known human weakness about "things"?

9. Who does H.H. compare his journey and its participants to in Part II?

10. What extraordinary thing happens to each member of the journey in Morbio Inferore?

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