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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 nationality does Willi claim?
(a) German.
(b) Austrian.
(c) Liechtensteiner.
(d) Swiss.

2. Which of the following plays does Lukas discuss?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) Oedipus Rex.
(c) The Golden Ass.
(d) The Frogs.

3. From what town do police come to investigate Klara’s death?
(a) Opole.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Waldenburg.
(d) Breslau.

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

5. Of what material are the hiking boots delivered to Mieczyś’s room?
(a) Calfskin.
(b) Goatskin.
(c) Pigskin.
(d) Ostrich-skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other name is ascribed to Emerentia?

2. From which of the following does Mieczyś turn back at the end of an early walk?

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

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

5. On what day is Klara’s funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Mieczyś initially ascribe the strange sounds he hears from the attic of his lodgings?

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

3. How do the narrators determine there had been recent rain at the beginning of the novel?

4. To what does the novel ascribe the colors of fall foliage?

5. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

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

7. What does Brehmer notice about tuberculosis that had been missed previously?

8. Why does Thilo claim landscape is a great mystery?

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

10. Why had Lukas reportedly been expelled from the Kurhaus?

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