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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. Which of the following does August cite against Mieczyś?

2. Who is the Bademeister at the sanatorium?

3. In what city is Mieczyś penetrated during a medical exam?

4. Which of the following flavors of macaroon does Mieczyś eat at the café with Frommer?

5. With what does Mieczyś think purple macaroons are colored?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What gift does Thilo give Mieczyś?

4. How does the sanatorium direct that blooded cloths be disposed of?

5. Why does Mieczyś dine in the last rotation at the sanatorium?

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

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

8. What is Dover’s powder?

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

10. How does Semperweiss characterize culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what genre other than horror might The Empusium be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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