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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. Who is the Bademeister at the sanatorium?

2. Which of the following studies geometry?

3. What is served along with the mushrooms Mieczyś harvests?

4. What kind of mushroom do Willi and Raimund harvest with Mieczyś?

5. In which of the following does Mieczyś see Thilo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Semperweiss note the point of having a gun is?

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

7. What memory of Klara wakes Mieczyś in the night?

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

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

10. How does Semperweiss characterize culture?

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

The lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does The Empusium bear as much out?

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