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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. In Part I, how does the narrator describe encounters with different parties?

2. What does H.H. say no longer exists in the group?

3. What is placed on the narrator as he is admitted into the League?

4. In Part II, what does H.H. say most historians want to do?

5. In Part II, where does one man assert an important document is?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, what does H.H. say is characteristic of the journey?

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

3. In Part II, what is the confusion among the members over a missing document?

4. What does H.H. say is his personal goal on the League's journey to the east?

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

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

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

8. What spiritual advances does H.H. say occurs just after the World War?

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

10. In Part I why does H.H. insist that other authors who claim to be members of the League and write travel diaries are not telling the truth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Early in Part III, Leo wants to end his meeting with H.H. after a brief conversation, but H.H. persists in following him. What does H.H. want from Leo? What is Leo's response? How does Leo try to calm H.H.? Explain why you think Leo is not able to recognize H.H. Include in your explanation an analysis of what is said in Part I about what happens to deserters of the League.

Essay Topic 2

The group arrives at Morbio Inferiore. What is Morbio Inferiore and where is it located? How does H.H. describe it? Does its physical features reflect what is going on in the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The members of H.H.'s group suffer a terrible loss on their journey east. What is this loss? How does it effect the group? Why do you think the group reacts as they do?

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