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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the sitting room at Einfried described?
(a) Small and cool.
(b) Dark and quiet, with blue French doors.
(c) Spacious and well furnished, with white French doors.
(d) Always too hot.

2. Who is the second character introduced?
(a) Dr. Muller.
(b) A writer.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Miss van Osterloh.

3. What was the name of Mrs. Kloterjahn's doctor when she first became ill?
(a) Dr. Dumkopf.
(b) Dr. Liebchen.
(c) Dr. Hinzpeter.
(d) Dr. Muller.

4. What season is it in Chapter 2?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

5. How does the writer spend the majority of his time?
(a) Listening to music.
(b) Writing letters.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing poetry.

6. Where does the writer display his book?
(a) On his bedside table.
(b) In the sitting room at Einfried.
(c) He doesn’t, it sits in his closet.
(d) On a table in his room.

7. Why does Mr. Spinell say that he is really at Einfried?
(a) For the views.
(b) For the people.
(c) For the décor.
(d) For the food.

8. How many children do the Kloterjahns have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

9. Where does Mrs. Kloterjahn sit most days?
(a) In her room.
(b) In the sitting room.
(c) In Mrs. Spatz’s room.
(d) Outside in the snow.

10. Who becomes Mrs. Kloterjahn’s mentor?
(a) Miss van Osterloh.
(b) Dr. Leander.
(c) Mrs. Hohlenrouch.
(d) Mrs. Spatz.

11. What is the writer’s name?
(a) Dmitri Spinell.
(b) Detley Spine.
(c) Detlev Spinell.
(d) Matthew Spinell.

12. What was prescribed for Mrs. Kloterjahn's cough?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Morphine.
(c) A trip to the seaside.
(d) Bloodletting.

13. What is the secondary physician’s name?
(a) Dr. Johnson.
(b) Dr. Smith.
(c) Dr. Muller.
(d) Dr. Hess.

14. What is Mr. Kloterjahn a connoisseur of?
(a) Wine.
(b) Fine food and drink.
(c) Art.
(d) Snowboarding.

15. What is the writer’s name described as sounding like?
(a) A country.
(b) A medicine.
(c) A kind of food.
(d) A mineral or precious stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a patient dies at the sanitarium?

2. Why does Mr. Spinell choose to look at beautiful women in the way that he does?

3. Who is Mrs. Spatz?

4. Who is the one woman Mr. Spinell says he could look at forever?

5. How is Mr. Spinell’s voice described?

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