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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. By what holiday does Mieczyś think to return home?

2. What is Angstel?

3. Which of the following is the first color of macaroon Mieczyś eats at the café with Frommer?

4. With what chess piece does Mieczyś identify?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Semperweiss characterize culture?

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

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

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

5. How does Mieczyś react to Frommer’s comment about seeing him visit what had been Klara’s rooms?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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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