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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rescued Ulrich in Chapter 12?
(a) Mary.
(b) Jan.
(c) Leona.
(d) Bonadea.

2. What year was Musil born?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1940.

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

4. What did the relationship that Ulrich and his rescuer share carry as an ominous feeling?
(a) Temporary nature.
(b) Predation.
(c) Death.
(d) Deceit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Musil, which of the following characterized the previous Century?

2. According to Musil, which of the following presented a paradox at the turn of the Century?

3. Why was the woman in Chapter 15 sad about her husband?

4. Which of the following statements best describes what the Count said to Diotoma about her idea in Chapter 25?

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

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