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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 flavors of macaroon does Mieczyś eat at the café with Frommer?

2. Which of the following is a twice-daily dousing of the back of the head in cold water?

3. To which of the following does Semperweiss liken Mieczyś?

4. Which of the following dishes meets with Mieczyś’s approval?

5. How many cigars is August allowed each day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What gift does Thilo give Mieczyś?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Empusium. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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