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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 flowers hang outside Zum Dreimädelhaus?

2. What is Angstel?

3. What does Mieczyś note has eaten the stair-rail?

4. Where does Semperweiss have a small estate?

5. What remark does a nurse offer regarding Thilo and György?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Mieczyś compare Emerentia’s robe?

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

3. What gift does Thilo give Mieczyś?

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

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

6. What does August regard as the function of myth?

7. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

8. How does Semperweiss explain the commonality of times of death to Mieczyś?

9. What is the subject of Thilo’s doctoral thesis?

10. Why does Willi propose an outing as Thilo’s health declines?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the discussion in Chapter 5 of the nature and purpose of art. Do any of the members of Mieczyś’s group have the right of it? If so, which, and how? If not, who is closest, and why?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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