The Magic Mountain | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What does Hans Castorp ride to ascend the Alps?

His narrow-gauge railroad car.

2. What makes Hans dizzy in Chapter 1?

The thin air.

3. Where does Hans first arrive in Chapter 1?

Davos-Platz.

4. What is the relationship between Hans and Joachim?

They are cousins.

5. What does Joachim say is different in the mountains?

Time.

6. What does Joachim call the spectum bottle that most Berghof patients carry?

His blue Henry.

7. Who does Hans learn has recently died in his room?

An American woman.

8. Whose sickly cough horrifies Hans?

An Austrian horseman's.

9. Who expresses satisfaction that Hans has come to the Berghof?

Joachim.

10. What does Hans turn the conversation toward on his first day at the Berghof?

The sanatorium and its patients.

11. Whose comical mispronunciations provide endless amusement?

Frau Stohr.

12. Who claims that he has never met...
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