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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 approach does the individual funding the project in Chapter 84 choose not to employ?

2. Who is Count Leinsdorf?

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

4. Arnheim has traveled extensively in what areas of the world?

5. Clarisse compares Moosbrugger to "the man without" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clarisse realize about the "man without qualities" in Chapter 97?

2. What theory does Ulrich develop in Chapter 91?

3. Who is Goethe, and how does Arnheim feel about him as described in Chapter 96?

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

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

6. What is revealed about Georg in Chapter 97?

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

8. What information is revealed about Arnheim's family and past in Chapters 89 and 90?

9. What is Ulrich's relationship with Count Leinsdorf in Chapter 81?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ulrich's relationship with Gerda is a strange one. How do they feel about one another? Why have they never been intimate? Why do they feel sometimes as if they ought to be intimate with one another? What happens when they try to take their relationship to that level, and why? How do other people view their relationship with one another?

Essay Topic 2

The author points out the importance of timeliness for success in business. Why is timeliness so crucial to an idea's marketability? How does Arnheim take advantage of this concept in ways that others don't? What happens to great ideas if they don't surface at the proper time, and why? Why is the execution of ideas such a difficult skill, and why do so few people possess it?

Essay Topic 3

Arnheim, Ulrich, and others all have different attitudes toward material wealth and what it means. Why is the significance of wealth so subjective? Why do rich and poor have different attitudes toward it? How does Arnheim's attitude toward wealth differ as a result of being born into a family with money, and why? Do you think our attitudes toward wealth in modern society are different from when the book was written?

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