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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the whistler?
(a) Hermine Kleefeld.
(b) Leo Naphta.
(c) Clavdia Chauchat.
(d) Lodovic Settembrini.

2. What are the opposing forces to Dr. Krokowski's lecture in Chapter 4?
(a) Life and health.
(b) Health and happiness.
(c) Shame and disgust.
(d) Enemity and anger.

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

4. What does Dr. Krokowski lecture about in Chapter 4?
(a) Death.
(b) Illness.
(c) Love.
(d) Friendship.

5. What is removed during meals and at night?
(a) Newborn babies.
(b) Newlywed couples.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Unruly patients.

6. What kind of situations does Hans do best with?
(a) Those connected to romance.
(b) Those connected to nothing.
(c) Those connected to death.
(d) Those connected to the future.

7. What preoccupies Hans during Dr. Krokowski's lecture?
(a) Joachim motioning for him.
(b) Clavdia's arms in gauzy sleeves.
(c) His nausea.
(d) Nothing.

8. What is the name of the private nurse whom Hans meets in Chapter 4?
(a) Clavdia Chauchat.
(b) Sister Berta.
(c) Frau Stohr.
(d) Behrens.

9. What did Hans finally get the nerve to do after observing the object of his hallucination for nearly a year?
(a) Marry her.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Borrow a mechanical pencil.
(d) Ask her on a date.

10. According to Settembrini, how were sickness and infirmity regarded during medieval times?
(a) As angering God.
(b) As bad luck.
(c) As passports to heaven.
(d) They did not view it as anything.

11. What is Hans late for in Chapter 4?
(a) A date with Clavdia Chauchat.
(b) Dr. Krokowski's lecture.
(c) Dr. Behrens' lecture.
(d) A date with Frau Stohr.

12. What does Hans feel that Settembrini criticizes him for in Chapter 4?
(a) Loving Clavdia.
(b) He feels Joachim criticizes him, not Settembrini.
(c) Buying blankets.
(d) Being at the Berghof.

13. Who tells Hans the name of the whistler?
(a) Dr. Behrens.
(b) Joachim.
(c) Clavdia.
(d) Hermine.

14. Who do Hans and Joachim encounter at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Naphta.
(b) Clavdia.
(c) Dr. Behrens.
(d) Settembrini.

15. What causes Hans to hallucinate in Chapter 4?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Lack of sleep.
(d) Blood loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Settembrini mock for inventing the "summer season"?

2. What wears Hans down at the end of Chapter 2?

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

4. Whose comical mispronunciations provide endless amusement?

5. What happens when Hans stops by a brook?

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