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Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edith commit suicide?
(a) She takes a bottle of sleeping pills.
(b) She throws herself over the balcony.
(c) She shoots herself with Hofmiller's gun.
(d) She jumps from the roof of the castle.

2. What does Condor ask Hofmiller to do about his situation with Edith?
(a) Ask Edith to marry him even if he doesn't love her.
(b) Continue to act normally with Edith for a week, and tell him immediately if anything happened to upset Edith.
(c) Follow through with his plan to leave the military and move far from the Kekesfalva family.
(d) Tell Edith the truth about his feelings immediately and face the consequences.

3. What happens when Hofmiller arrives at the castle to thank Kekesfalva for the dinner invitation?
(a) Kekesfalva invites him to stay for tea.
(b) He is turned away because he doesn't have an appointment.
(c) The family is not at home.
(d) The family is offended and rescinds his dinner invitation.

4. Later on the night following their trip, from whom does Hofmiller receive a note?
(a) Edith.
(b) His father.
(c) Kekesfalva.
(d) Ilona.

5. When returning from his evening with Ferencz and finding another letter from Edith, what is Hofmiller afraid of?
(a) That she has told her father that Hofmiller doesn't return her love.
(b) That she has found someone else.
(c) That she is trying to trap him.
(d) That she has run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the introduction, in what way did Zweig's life mirror that of his main character, Hofmiller?

2. When Hofmiller realizes that Edith is in love with him, who does he blame?

3. What is Dr. Condor's wife's name?

4. What initially interested Kekesfalva about the estate Dietzenhof had inherited?

5. What does Hofmiller think to himself about his decision not to gallop the horses?

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