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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Chapter 88 - 91.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Count's major source of wealth?
(a) An inheritance.
(b) Stocks and bonds.
(c) Slave labor.
(d) Land ownership.

2. Ulrich urges General Stumm to do what, in Chapter 84?
(a) Tell Diotima how he feels about her.
(b) Take the opportunity to invest in a new business.
(c) Not take thinking so seriously.
(d) Retire from his military career to pursue one that he enjoys.

3. What was the topic of the letter that Clarisse wrote to Count Leinsdorf in Chapter 82?
(a) Starting her own salon, with the Count's permission and funding.
(b) Allowing Ulrich to take advantage of the Count's political connections.
(c) Creating a Nietzsche Year.
(d) Purchasing one of the Count's properties.

4. What does Ulrich begin to suspect in Chapter 91?
(a) There is some reason why Diotima's husband is so tolerant of her affection for Arnheim.
(b) Arnheim and Diotima are secretly having an affair.
(c) Count Leinsdorf is beginning to fall for Diotima as well.
(d) General Stumm is planning to murder Arnheim.

5. What is the General's response to Ulrich's assertion that he values intellect too highly in Chapter 85?
(a) He is accustomed to being around intellectuals, so stupid people bore him.
(b) He doesn't value intellect more than anyone else, but he appreciates it more.
(c) He values intellect only when it is combined with other virtues.
(d) He has found too much anti-intellectualism in the soldiers' mess halls over the years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might be the result if the philosopher mentioned in Chapter 77 were to do what the author suggests?

2. What does Arnheim end up doing in Chapter 86?

3. What is Leo's reaction to the topic Ulrich introduces in Chapter 73?

4. What is Klementine's reaction to the topic Ulrich introduces in Chapter 73?

5. How old is Gerda?

(see the answer key)

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