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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Mieczyś’s uncle?
(a) Józef.
(b) January.
(c) Fyodor.
(d) Emil.

2. At what altitude is the sanatorium?
(a) 570 meters.
(b) 900 meters.
(c) 750 meters.
(d) 90 meters.

3. Who is the first to offer Willi condolences at the death of his wife?
(a) Thilo.
(b) Lukas.
(c) August.
(d) Frommer.

4. In what year was Mieczyś born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1889.

5. Which of the following is called the Grizzled Lion?
(a) Frommer.
(b) Thilo.
(c) Lukas.
(d) August.

6. Which of the following was condemned for witchcraft?
(a) Anna Tieff.
(b) Wilma Flintstone.
(c) Inge Gräber.
(d) Emma Stutlz.

7. What make of car does Semperweiss drive?
(a) BMW.
(b) Volkswagen.
(c) Mercedes.
(d) Chrysler.

8. Brehmer had attended lectures by which of the following?
(a) Marx.
(b) Zetkin.
(c) Engels.
(d) Kropotkin.

9. How many troops does a cavalry regiment include?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

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

11. Which of the following names predominates in the cemetery where Klara is interred?
(a) Fährmann.
(b) Küfer.
(c) Bauer.
(d) Fischer.

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

13. Where, other than the sanatorium where Mieczyś is a patient, does the novel remark treatment for tuberculosis might be sought?
(a) Mountain View.
(b) Merano.
(c) Batavia.
(d) Harefield.

14. In what town is Klara interred?
(a) Langgustavsdorf.
(b) Kurzgustavsdorf.
(c) Langwaltersdorf.
(d) Kurzwaltersdorf.

15. Which of the following is depicted on the wall of Mieczyś’s lodgings?
(a) Hyenas.
(b) Gnu.
(c) Zebras.
(d) Jackals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following names predominates in the cemetery where Klara is interred?

2. How does the novel gloss the term “czernina”?

3. With which of the following concepts does Lukas express disgust?

4. Which of the following plays does Lukas discuss?

5. Which of the following plays does August quote?

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