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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the leading nurse at the sanatorium?
(a) Margaret Houlihan.
(b) Dorothea Dix.
(c) Sydonia Patek.
(d) Florence Nightingale.

2. Approximately what percentage of sanatorium patients recover?
(a) 75.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 95.

3. What kind of official wrote in the passport Mieczyś has at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Silesian.
(b) Welsh.
(c) Venetian.
(d) Galician.

4. Which of the following woods is noted in the novel as good for making charcoal?
(a) Hackberry.
(b) Birch.
(c) Willow.
(d) Yew.

5. Who translates the epigraph of the novel?
(a) Pessoa.
(b) Zenith.
(c) Nadir.
(d) Arthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the sole person interred in Görbersdorf?

2. Which of the following does Mieczyś read most readily?

3. What is used to summon patients to meals in the novel?

4. On what day is Klara’s funeral?

5. In what town is Klara interred?

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