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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. How does Joachim feel about Ruzena?

2. Who is Mother Hentjen?

3. Where does August fantasize about moving to?

4. Who is Bertrand?

5. What is Marie in the Salvation Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Joachim meet Ruzena?

2. When does Bertrand tell Elisabeth that he loves her for the first time, and why are the two together?

3. How does Huguenau behave with the townspeople?

4. What happens when Joachim's father hears that Bertrand must go away on business?

5. Why does August cease his efforts to promote women's wrestling and stop planning to go to America?

6. Whom gives August insight into Bertrand's sexuality and how does that person feel about Bertrand?

7. What happened when the narrator in Part Three, Chapter XXVII offered to take Marie to a restaurant?

8. Who is Hanna Wendling and how does she spend her days?

9. Why was Joachim being sent to military school early?

10. Why does August visit homosexual haunts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The knife throwing act affects August deeply, and he doesn't see it as mere entertainment. How does August feel after seeing the knife throwing act, what does the knife throwing symbolize for him, and why does it affect him so deeply?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Joachim still desire Ruzena after finding her with another man? Does he still love her? Is his self-esteem low?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Huguenau become a deserter? Discuss the reasons Huguenau becomes a deserter and what his reasons reveal about his character.

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