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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 color eyes does Mieczyś have?

2. Approximately what percentage of sanatorium patients recover?

3. What was the name of Mieczyś’s nanny?

4. Who is the first to offer Willi condolences at the death of his wife?

5. Which of the following asserts Willi abused Klara?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How had Mieczyś been instructed to ward off panic caused by coughing?

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

9. Why is Mieczyś unable to read novels?

10. How is Mieczyś’s uncle employed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel does not make much of romantic love. What effect does the lack of it have on the novel? What effect would inclusion of it have on the novel? How?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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