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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 owns Zum Dreimädelhaus?

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

3. Of what fabric does Mieczyś have drawers?

4. To which of the following is Mieczyś sent to study?

5. To which of the following does Willi take his tenants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Semperweiss respond to the revelation of Mieczyś’s condition?

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

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

5. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Empusium do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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