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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. Whose method of baths are prescribed to Mieczyś?

2. From which of the following does Lukas come?

3. With what character does Mieczyś identify?

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

5. Which of the following had Mieczyś quailed from in his childhood basement?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mieczyś recall doing in his country-house attic?

3. Why does Mieczyś study mathematics and chemistry?

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

5. How is the whistling of the witches’ mouths explained?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Empusium. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does The Empusium bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than horror might The Empusium be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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