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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 8, which of the following did the narrator describe as a form of intimacy that was not right?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sex.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Praying.

2. Why was Ulrich in a mess in Chapter 6?
(a) Because he had been in a street fight.
(b) Because he had been feeling sick.
(c) Because he had been shot.
(d) Because he had been in an accident.

3. How many children did the woman who rescued Ulrich have?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. How many people did Ulrich face in Chapter 6?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many chapters are included in the two-volume set of The Man Without Qualities?

2. When her friendship with Ulrich escalated, which of the following types of intimacy developed between them in Chapter 12?

3. According to Ulrich in Chapter 11, what was the paradoxical power of engineering?

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

5. What city did Musil live in later in life as a post-Expressionist writer?

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