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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did the Northern Europeans lack in terms of literature?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Sturm und Drang.
(c) Gothic literature.
(d) Romanticism.

2. What type of communication did Ulrich find among the people whom he studied and worked with in Chapter 10?
(a) Intuitive.
(b) Underhanded.
(c) Open.
(d) Closed.

3. How many chapters are included in the two-volume set of The Man Without Qualities?
(a) 24.
(b) 12.
(c) 72.
(d) 84.

4. What city did Musil live in later in life as a post-Expressionist writer?
(a) Prague.
(b) Copenhagen.
(c) Geneva.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was Robert Musil's nationality?

2. What kind of woman was Ulrich's rescuer?

3. What did Ulrich do to the woman in Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 6, who found Ulrich in a dreadful condition and sent him home in a cab?

5. Where did Musil spend most of his life?

(see the answer key)

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