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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 asserts Willi abused Klara?
(a) Lukas.
(b) August.
(c) Thilo.
(d) Frommer.

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

3. What German word does Mieczyś note liking?
(a) Gemütlich.
(b) Kopf.
(c) Unheimlich.
(d) Lebensabschnittpartner.

4. From the mountains of which of the following is tuberculosis noted to be absent?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Norway.

5. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Before the droshky moved off, with a sort of mischievous joy she threw it up in the air, letting it fall straight into her mouth.”
(b) “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
(c) “The view is obscured by clouds of steam from the locomotive that trail along the platform.”
(d) “We are always here.”

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following lands was Klara?

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

3. In which of the following was August born?

4. What had Mieczyś’s father used as aftershave?

5. What color eyes does Mieczyś have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message does Mieczyś send his father and uncle on postcards?

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

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

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

5. Why is there no cemetery in Görbersdorf?

6. Why does Mieczyś report his diet to his father?

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

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

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

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

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