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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. Mieczyś recalls a statue of what angel with damage to its hand?

2. Which of the following does Mieczyś read most readily?

3. Who had owned the copy of The Heathen Mieczyś attempts to read?

4. Which of the following does the novel note should feature on the European coat of arms?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is there no cemetery in Görbersdorf?

2. Why had Lukas reportedly been expelled from the Kurhaus?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is to be made of the fact that Klara’s clothes fit Mieczyś so precisely as they do? Why is that to be made of it?

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

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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