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Q. What is significant about dentures in Death in Venice?
They represent bad dental hygiene.
They're not beautiful.
They represent mortality.
They're not significant.
Q. What is one reason why Aschenbach feels an "urge to flee" Munich?
He's bored.
He has writer's block.
Munich is a terrible place.
He doesn't know—dude always acts impulsively.
Q. Which character brings together different physical features of "otherness" in Death in Venice?
The minstrel.
The stranger god
Aschenbach
Tadzio
Q. Where does cholera originate?
Munich
Venice
The jungles of India
Africa
Q. What is the primary significance of the stranger god dream?
It adds an element of horror to the text.
The point is to depict the important role of strangers in psychology.
It's when Aschenbach's attraction to Tadzio becomes fully erotic.
It's not really all that significant.