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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. To which of the following had Mieczyś been taken by his father and his uncle?

2. What is Angstel?

3. Who owns Zum Dreimädelhaus?

4. To which of the following does Semperweiss liken Mieczyś?

5. Which of the following does Semperweiss cite to Mieczyś?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mieczyś avoid the other Poles at the sanatorium?

2. Why does Mieczyś join Willi and Raimund on a mushroom-picking trip?

3. How does Mieczyś know Schwärmerei tastes like ants?

4. Why, per Frommer, is Mieczyś in danger?

5. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

6. How does Mieczyś react to Frommer’s comment about seeing him visit what had been Klara’s rooms?

7. What thought about Poland does Mieczyś not share with his father?

8. For what purpose did Mieczyś’s father wear a red and white handkerchief?

9. How does Mieczyś know the stones used in the Tuntschi are not local?

10. Why does Mieczyś begin to avoid August, Lukas, and Frommer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Tokarczuk’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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