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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who found Ulrich in a dreadful condition and sent him home in a cab?
(a) A priest.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A woman.
(d) A fireman.

2. Where did Musil spend most of his life?
(a) America.
(b) Slovakia.
(c) Austria.
(d) Germany.

3. Which of the following groups of writers shared the same literary lineage with Musil?
(a) Spencer, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare.
(b) Tolstoy, Balzac, and Dostoevsky.
(c) Milton, Yeats, and Balzac.
(d) Goethe, Marx, and Whitmore.

4. Where did Ulrich go after leaving the cavalry?
(a) Into the civil engineering field.
(b) Into the education field.
(c) To offer his services for rescue work.
(d) To drama school.

5. Where did Ulrich spend time with his lover?
(a) In the rural countryside.
(b) In private quarters.
(c) Both - in private quarters and out in public.
(d) Out in public.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the relationship that Ulrich and his rescuer share carry as an ominous feeling?

2. What type of communication did Ulrich find among the people whom he studied and worked with in Chapter 10?

3. Which of the following did Ulrich's lover do for a living?

4. Which of the following traits possessed by Ulrich's lover did not become apparent at first, but rather became evident later?

5. Which of the following was the War in which Musil served?

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