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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. On what day is Klara’s funeral?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Wednesday.

2. Which of the following had sponsored Brehmer?
(a) Ritter.
(b) Humboldt.
(c) Bonpland.
(d) Darwin.

3. Mieczyś recalls a statue of what angel with damage to its hand?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Michael.
(c) Uriel.
(d) Raphael.

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

5. On what street did Mieczyś and his father visit a restaurant weekly?
(a) Shevska.
(b) Trybunalska.
(c) Krakivska.
(d) Teatralna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Mieczyś’s nanny?

2. At what altitude is the sanatorium?

3. What name for tuberculosis does Semperweiss note is fashionable?

4. From which of the following does Lukas come?

5. How does Semperweiss gloss the term “phthisis”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Mieczyś and his nanny called tweaking?

2. How had Mieczyś been instructed to ward off panic caused by coughing?

3. Why is Mieczyś unable to read novels?

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

5. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

6. How do the narrators know that Mieczyś is wearing a fresh shirt collar when he is introduced?

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

8. Why is there no cemetery in Görbersdorf?

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

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

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