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

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

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

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

5. From what brewery does Raimund bring Lukas beer?
(a) Wolpertshausen.
(b) Neuenstein.
(c) Waldenburg.
(d) Pfedelbach.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following are noted as flowering in Lwów?

4. With which of the following does the novel begin?

5. What color of sock is Mieczyś wearing when he is introduced to the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mieczyś study mathematics and chemistry?

3. Why does Mieczyś associate the smell of fat with his father?

4. How do those where Mieczyś seeks treatment mark their graves?

5. What does Thilo claim is “the most common mistake people make when they’re in danger” (49)?

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

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

8. Why is Mieczyś unable to read novels?

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

10. What does August consider wisdom?

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