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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. What is the name of the leading nurse at the sanatorium?

2. Which of the following was condemned for witchcraft?

3. Of what material are the hiking boots delivered to Mieczyś’s room?

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

5. What is the oldest building in the sanatorium?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

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

3. What are the witches’ mouths to which Willi leads Mieczyś and his fellow-lodgers?

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

5. What does Brehmer notice about tuberculosis that had been missed previously?

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

7. How does Mieczyś know people spy on others in hotels?

8. How do the narrators know that Mieczyś is wearing a fresh shirt collar when he is introduced?

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

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

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

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of The Empusium? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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