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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is displayed on the postcard Mieczyś sends his father?

2. For what government had August’s father worked?

3. Approximately what percentage of sanatorium patients recover?

4. Which of the following is Mieczyś served among his first full meal in his lodgings?

5. From where is Frommer noted to hail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What had Mieczyś and his nanny called tweaking?

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

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

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

6. What does August consider wisdom?

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

8. Why is there no cemetery in Görbersdorf?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of The Empusium on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the discussion in Chapter 5 of the nature and purpose of art. Do any of the members of Mieczyś’s group have the right of it? If so, which, and how? If not, who is closest, and why?

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