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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the importance of a book determined, according to the author?
(a) By its impact on popular culture.
(b) By its sales.
(c) By the popularity of its writer.
(d) By its critical reviews.

2. What important concept is introduced in Chapter 99?
(a) Realism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. What does Clarisse think is the main difference between the two men she compares in Chapter 97?
(a) One is musical, and the other is not.
(b) One is in love with her, and the other is not.
(c) One is successful, and the other is not.
(d) One is compassionate, and the other is not.

4. What does Clarisse realize about her husband in Chapter 97?
(a) He was never in love with her.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) He is afraid of her.
(d) He is no longer in love with her.

5. According to Arnheim in Chapter 92, what group of people frequently gave him the most trouble?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) People who suddenly came into great quantities of money.
(c) The intelligentsia.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which individual is mentioned as being one of the author's influences in Chapter 91?

2. Who is Soliman?

3. What is the Count's major source of wealth?

4. Arnheim mentions in Chapter 96 the importance of what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 92, what belief is commonly held by rich people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ulrich and Gerda's relationship like as explained in Chapter 74?

2. What was the course of the General's career development as outlined in Chapter 80?

3. What is Diotima's psychological situation in Chapter 94?

4. What does Clarisse do in Chapter 82 that embarrasses Ulrich?

5. How is the relationship between Diotima and Arnheim described in Chapter 93?

6. What do Ulrich and General Stumm say about Diotima in Chapter 85?

7. What is the difference in the way rich people and poor people view wealth, according to the narrator's statements in Chapter 92?

8. What are some of the ideological debates going on in the Collateral Campaign in Chapter 89?

9. What is revealed about Georg in Chapter 97?

10. What does the author say in Chapter 77 about losing one's sense of reality?

(see the answer keys)

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