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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following specialty areas best described Ulrich's education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Philosophies.
(c) Music.
(d) Arts.

3. Where did Musil spend most of his life?
(a) Austria.
(b) Germany.
(c) Slovakia.
(d) America.

4. Which of the following trait types were discovered with the newness of the Century?
(a) Long and muted.
(b) Fashionable and appealing.
(c) Paradoxical and contradictory.
(d) Similar and equitable.

5. According to Ulrich in Chapter 11, what was the paradoxical power of engineering?
(a) That it empowered and enslaved.
(b) That more equipment would end up being broken than getting fixed.
(c) That it led those in the profession to fight and then make peace.
(d) That jobs in the field would open, and then close up.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Musil, what portion of the female body was covered up in clothing?

2. According to Musil, which of the following types of behaviors were expected of women?

3. Where did Ulrich spend time with his lover?

4. Which of the following brought about a story shift in Chapter 22?

5. Whom of the following did Ulrich meet in Chapter 20?

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