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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 what age does the protagonist report beginning to see hallucinations?
(a) 12.
(b) 13.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

2. In what year did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1953.

3. How long do the protagonist and interlocutor have together after the break in II?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. Of what religion is the interlocutor’s spouse?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Christian.

5. Through what agency does the protagonist purchase a violin?
(a) Guadagnini.
(b) William Harris Lee & Co.
(c) Bein & Fushi.
(d) Carl Becker & Son.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how much does the protagonist purchase her violin?

2. To which of the following tests had the protagonist been subjected?

3. The novel explains the term “orts” as akin to which of the following?

4. Where was the protagonist’s father living just before his death?

5. With which of the following does I end?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist purpose to protect the violin she buys?

2. Why does the protagonist consider music an exception to the rules governing other things?

3. What vice does the protagonist admit to having?

4. Why does the protagonist report having little contact with her father’s family?

5. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

6. What compelled the protagonist’s family to move to Wartburg?

7. How does the protagonist explain the decision to commit herself, rather than to be committed?

8. How does the protagonist explain her affinity for mental health inpatients?

9. What agreement is implied to exist between the protagonist and interlocutor as the main text of the novel begins?

10. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

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