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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. Which of the following are noted as flowering in Lwów?
(a) Chrysanthemums.
(b) Clover.
(c) Zinnias.
(d) Lantanas.

2. What was the name of Mieczyś’s nanny?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Gliceria.
(c) Melchora.
(d) Agueda.

3. Which of the following is the first to greet Mieczyś?
(a) Willi.
(b) Frommer.
(c) Thilo.
(d) August.

4. With which of the following languages does Mieczyś associate pain?
(a) Latin.
(b) Greek.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following had been a childhood friend to Mieczyś?

2. In which of the following was August born?

3. From which of the following did Mieczyś travel to reach Görbersdorf?

4. Brehmer had attended lectures by which of the following?

5. Mieczyś recalls a statue of what angel with damage to its hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mieczyś know the piano in his lodgings is used little?

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

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

4. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

5. What are the fates of Willi’s four wives?

6. What are the witches’ mouths to which Willi leads Mieczyś and his fellow-lodgers?

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

8. Why is Mieczyś unable to read novels?

9. What had Mieczyś and his nanny called tweaking?

10. Why does Willi dine with his lodgers on the day his wife dies?

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