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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. What remark does a nurse offer regarding Thilo and György?

2. What was Frommer’s mother’s maiden name?

3. Which of the following is a shower with water a 6 to 8 degrees centigrade?

4. How does Thilo refer to György?

5. Whose flight do Mieczyś’s fellow-lodgers discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mieczyś know the stones used in the Tuntschi are not local?

2. What is Dover’s powder?

3. How does Mieczyś know Schwärmerei tastes like ants?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Semperweiss characterize culture?

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

10. Why does Mieczyś buy pistachio macaroons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the opening paragraph of Chapter 8 (135-36). What purpose is served by the glossing of time in it, and how is that purpose served?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Empusium should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel, as presented in this Lesson Plan, exists in translation. Not all of the translation is rendered in English, however. What effect on the reader does the retention of untranslated words have, what drives it, and how does it manifest?

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