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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 was the name of Mieczyś’s nanny?

2. Which of the following was condemned for witchcraft?

3. Which of the following plays does August quote?

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

5. What color of sock is Mieczyś wearing when he is introduced to the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

8. What does Thilo claim is “the most common mistake people make when they’re in danger” (49)?

9. Why does Mieczyś study mathematics and chemistry?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel, as presented in this Lesson Plan, exists in translation. Not all of the translation is rendered in English, however. What effect on the reader does the retention of untranslated words have, what drives it, and how does it manifest?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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