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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. Approximately what percentage of sanatorium patients recover?

2. Where, other than the sanatorium where Mieczyś is a patient, does the novel remark treatment for tuberculosis might be sought?

3. What is the name of Mieczyś’s uncle?

4. From where is Frommer noted to hail?

5. Mieczyś and his fellow lodgers discuss the disappearance of what painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

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

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

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

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

6. How do the narrators determine there had been recent rain at the beginning of the novel?

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

8. Why does Mieczyś study mathematics and chemistry?

9. Why does Mieczyś associate the smell of fat with his father?

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

Assuming that The Empusium should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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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