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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hans Castorp ride to ascend the Alps?
(a) A ski-lift.
(b) The Berghof's personal plane.
(c) His narrow-gauge railroad car.
(d) A boat.

2. What does Hans do for days and weeks after hearing the sounds from the room next door?
(a) Blush.
(b) Consider leaving the Berghof.
(c) Avoid his neighbor.
(d) There are no sounds.

3. What is engraved with the names of Hans' family patriarchs for the past few hundred years?
(a) The family baptismal bowl.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The family Bible.
(d) The portrait of Hans' grandfather.

4. Who notices that Hans is anemic?
(a) Joachim.
(b) Clavdia.
(c) Dr. Krokowski.
(d) Dr. Behrens.

5. What is the old woman in black called?
(a) Tous-les-deux.
(b) Madame Chauchat.
(c) Dr. Krokowski.
(d) Frau Stohr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hans first arrive in Chapter 1?

2. What does Hans' mother die from?

3. How does Hans describe the old woman in the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. Who is Tienappel?

5. How does Hans feel about the image of his grandfather in his coffin?

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