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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 is a shower with water a 6 to 8 degrees centigrade?

2. From where does Willi source goat cheeses?

3. For which of the following does Mieczyś conceive a passion?

4. Which of the following sold candies?

5. What is Frommer’s vocal range?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What gift does Thilo give Mieczyś?

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

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

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

7. How does Mieczyś know Schwärmerei tastes like ants?

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

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

10. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is to be made of the fact that Klara’s clothes fit Mieczyś so precisely as they do? Why is that to be made of it?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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