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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What time period does Hans hallucinate about?
(a) His future.
(b) His time at the Berghof.
(c) Middle school.
(d) High school.

3. Who does Hans mention when Settembrini complains about his ignorant tablemates?
(a) Frau Stohr.
(b) Dr. Behrens.
(c) Clavdia Chauchat.
(d) Joachim.

4. Who does Hans hallucinate about?
(a) Pribislav Hippe.
(b) Hanz Lorenz Castorp.
(c) Clavdia Chauchat.
(d) Joachim Niemssen.

5. Where does Hans walk after first breakfast in Chapter 3?
(a) A mountain path.
(b) To Joachim's room.
(c) Town.
(d) To a lecture.

6. What wears Hans down at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) The concentrated study for his college exams.
(b) His ill health.
(c) The deaths surrounding him.
(d) His thwarted romance.

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

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

9. How should Hans live while is at the Berghof, according to Dr. Behrens?
(a) As though he is going to die soon.
(b) As if he had tuberculosis himself.
(c) He should not stay at the Berghof at all.
(d) As though he is on vacation.

10. Why did the Catholic patient scream?
(a) Because he/she was not allowed to leave the Berghof.
(b) Because he/she was in so much pain.
(c) He/she never screamed.
(d) Because he/she saw the priest arriving for last rites.

11. Whose sickly cough horrifies Hans?
(a) An Austrian horseman's.
(b) An American woman's.
(c) Joachim's.
(d) Clavdia Chauchat's.

12. What are the old woman's sons dying from?
(a) Aneurisms.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Flu.
(d) Tuberculosis.

13. What does the whistler use to whistle?
(a) His/her pneumothorax.
(b) His/her nose.
(c) A whistle on a string.
(d) His/her lungs.

14. Whose comical mispronunciations provide endless amusement?
(a) Joachim.
(b) Dr. Krokowski.
(c) Hans.
(d) Frau Stohr.

15. Who does Settembrini call "lieutenant"?
(a) Joachim.
(b) Hans.
(c) Behrens.
(d) Krokowski.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who raises Hans for a year and a half after his parents' deaths?

3. Whose glance distracts Hans near the end of Chapter 4?

4. What does Hans tell Joachim is really his element?

5. Who is Tienappel?

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