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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. What type of tea does Janina serve the writer at the end of Chapter 13?

2. What do Janina, Oddball, and Boros do together the evening after Janina and Boros help Oddball in Chapter 11?

3. When do the houses at Luftzug begin to be inhabited?

4. What do Janina and Oddball eat while Oddball tells her about his family?

5. In Chapter 13, how long has it been since Janina gave up smoking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janina teach in the village?

2. What does Janina find for a costume at Good News' shop?

3. What does Boros find in the area where Innerd's body was found and what does it indicate?

4. What have been Janina's careers?

5. What do Janina, Boros, and Oddball do when they meet in the evening in Chapter 11?

6. In Chapter 11, why does Oddball ask for Janina's help?

7. Why does the writer wear an orthopedic collar?

8. When does the dentist begin working and why?

9. How does Janina think people feel when they first see their own horoscope?

10. Who does Janina see in the woods in Chapter 10, and what does he look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Setting is where a novel takes place. Is the setting a neutral background, not important to the novel, or does the setting take on the role of a character?

Essay Topic 2

Are Janina's actions in the novel moral or immoral? Are the actions of her friends who help her escape moral or immoral?

Essay Topic 3

Janina has health problems. What does Janina call her health problems? How does she lose control when she has her ailments? What do the ailments symbolize?

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