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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. Who is the sole person interred in Görbersdorf?
(a) Yerinkova.
(b) Koch.
(c) Brehmer.
(d) Strauss.

2. From which of the following does Lukas come?
(a) Königsberg.
(b) Brest.
(c) Kaunas.
(d) Gdynia.

3. What kind of bird pauses at the autumnal equinox?
(a) Starling.
(b) Grackle.
(c) Raven.
(d) Magpie.

4. From the mountains of which of the following is tuberculosis noted to be absent?
(a) Uzbekia.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Kirghizia.
(d) Tajikistan.

5. Which of the following names predominates in the cemetery where Klara is interred?
(a) Küfer.
(b) Fährmann.
(c) Fischer.
(d) Bauer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city’s weather is posited as useful for forecasting conditions at the sanatorium?

2. Which of the following plays does August quote?

3. Which of the following descriptors is applied to Thilo?

4. Which of the following plays does Mieczyś favor?

5. From which of the following lands was Klara?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

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

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

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

6. What had Mieczyś and his nanny called tweaking?

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

8. What features on the grave of Mieczyś’s mother?

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

10. Why does Mieczyś’s father reject the idea of an independent Poland?

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