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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what region had August’s mother come?
(a) Bukovina.
(b) Silesia.
(c) Galicia.
(d) Maramureş.

2. Who provides the epigraph for the novel?
(a) Zenith.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Nadir.
(d) Pessoa.

3. Who is the sole person interred in Görbersdorf?
(a) Brehmer.
(b) Koch.
(c) Strauss.
(d) Yerinkova.

4. Which of the following does Mieczyś recall having visited?
(a) Stanylya.
(b) Boryslav.
(c) Truskawiec.
(d) Modrychi.

5. On what street did Mieczyś and his father visit a restaurant weekly?
(a) Shevska.
(b) Teatralna.
(c) Trybunalska.
(d) Krakivska.

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

7. Mieczyś recalls a statue of what angel with damage to its hand?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Uriel.
(c) Michael.
(d) Raphael.

8. Which of the following was condemned for witchcraft?
(a) Maria Warner.
(b) Joanna Kopeck.
(c) Eva Bernhard.
(d) Helena Burnsoft.

9. With what character does Mieczyś identify?
(a) Tertius.
(b) Lucius.
(c) Augustus.
(d) Commodus.

10. Which of the following asserts Willi abused Klara?
(a) Frommer.
(b) Thilo.
(c) Lukas.
(d) August.

11. Which of the following does Raimund serve at the witches’ mouths?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Beer.
(c) Tea.
(d) Wine.

12. In which of the following was August born?
(a) Slovakia.
(b) Romania.
(c) Macedonia.
(d) Croatia.

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

14. Who rebukes Mieczyś and Thilo for being late to take their rest-cure?
(a) Kneipp.
(b) Lachowski.
(c) Schwartz.
(d) Althaus.

15. Which of the following had Mieczyś quailed from in his childhood basement?
(a) A rat.
(b) A snake.
(c) A toad.
(d) An owl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to offer Willi condolences at the death of his wife?

2. From what brewery does Raimund bring Lukas beer?

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

4. Which of the following woods is noted in the novel as good for making charcoal?

5. Which of the following plays does Lukas discuss?

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