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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 flowers hang outside Zum Dreimädelhaus?
(a) Pelargoniums.
(b) Begonias.
(c) Hydrangeas.
(d) Petunias.

2. Which of the following does August cite against Mieczyś?
(a) Seneca.
(b) Cato.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Juvenal.

3. In which of the following does Mieczyś see Thilo?
(a) The Matriarch.
(b) The Grandmother.
(c) The Mother.
(d) The Infant.

4. Which of the following dishes meets with Mieczyś’s approval?
(a) Yorkshire pudding.
(b) Bread pudding.
(c) Rice pudding.
(d) Blood pudding.

5. At what hospital does Semperweiss work?
(a) Opole.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Breslau.
(d) Waldenburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mieczyś note has eaten the stair-rail?

2. Whose work was Mieczyś obliged to copy as handwriting practice?

3. To which of the following does Willi take his tenants?

4. Which of the following does Mieczyś notice in what had been Klara’s room?

5. What kind of mushroom does Mieczyś harvest with Willi and Raimund?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the subject of Thilo’s doctoral thesis?

2. What memory of Klara wakes Mieczyś in the night?

3. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

4. Why does Mieczyś join Willi and Raimund on a mushroom-picking trip?

5. Why, per Frommer, is Mieczyś in danger?

6. What is Dover’s powder?

7. To what does Mieczyś compare Emerentia’s robe?

8. How does Mieczyś know Schwärmerei tastes like ants?

9. How does Mieczyś react to Frommer’s comment about seeing him visit what had been Klara’s rooms?

10. Why does Mieczyś avoid the other Poles at the sanatorium?

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