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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the other patients react to Hans being whistle at?
(a) They whistle at him also.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They stare in bewilderment.
(d) There are no other patients around.

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

3. What is kept very discreet at the Berghof?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Drug abuse.
(c) Death.
(d) Marriage.

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

5. In Chapter 3, what does Hans hear from the room next door?
(a) Someone being constrained from fighting.
(b) An argument.
(c) The sounds of lovemaking.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hans' mother die from?

2. What does the whistler use to whistle?

3. What makes Hans dizzy in Chapter 1?

4. When does Hans feel healthy?

5. Who does Settembrini compare to Odysseus?

(see the answer key)

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