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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. What city’s weather is posited as useful for forecasting conditions at the sanatorium?
(a) Bratislava.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Nuremberg.
(d) Prague.

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

3. Which of the following sports a monocle?
(a) Frommer.
(b) Lukas.
(c) August.
(d) Thilo.

4. How much water is used to quench the charcoal retorts?
(a) 100 barrels.
(b) 100 gallons.
(c) 100 liters.
(d) 100 pints.

5. What color of coat is Mieczyś wearing when he is introduced to the novel?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the mountains of which of the following is tuberculosis noted to be absent?

2. On what street did Mieczyś and his father visit a restaurant weekly?

3. Approximately what percentage of sanatorium patients recover?

4. With which of the following languages does Mieczyś associate pain?

5. Of which of the following did Mieczyś’s father approve?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mieczyś study mathematics and chemistry?

2. What does August posit is “the basis of old age” (57)?

3. Why does Mieczyś’s father reject the idea of an independent Poland?

4. Why does Mieczyś note liking the concept of things being appetizing?

5. Why does Frommer note that nearby witchcraft trials had ended?

6. What does Mieczyś recall doing in his country-house attic?

7. Why is Mieczyś unable to read novels?

8. How is the whistling of the witches’ mouths explained?

9. Why is there no cemetery in Görbersdorf?

10. What does the epigraph say must be done with what cannot be explained?

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