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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who listens to a concert in Chapter 4?
(a) Hans and Joachim.
(b) Dr. Behrens and Dr. Krokowski.
(c) Hans and Clavdia.
(d) Settembrini and Naphta.

2. What does Hans do on his first full day at the Berghof?
(a) Decide to return home.
(b) Read a book.
(c) Look out from his room.
(d) Write to his parents.

3. Who is Tienappel?
(a) Hans' grandfather.
(b) Hans' cousin.
(c) Hans' great-uncle.
(d) Hans' father.

4. How does Settembrini feel about music?
(a) He has a political distaste for it.
(b) He feels that it is dangerous for Joachim.
(c) He enjoys it.
(d) He is a musician himself.

5. Who expresses satisfaction that Hans has come to the Berghof?
(a) Dr. Krokowski.
(b) Clavdia.
(c) Dr. Behrens.
(d) Joachim.

6. Who raises Hans for a year and a half after his parents' deaths?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His great-uncle.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His great-aunt.

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

8. Who does Settembrini compare to Minos and Rhadamanthus?
(a) Clavdia and Peeperkorn.
(b) Behrens and Krokowski.
(c) Himself and Naphta.
(d) Hans and Joachim.

9. Whose glance distracts Hans near the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Dr. Behrens'.
(b) Clavdia's.
(c) Dr. Krokowski's.
(d) Joachim's.

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

11. What do Joachim and Settembrini agree that music can awaken?
(a) The body.
(b) The intellect.
(c) The heart.
(d) The soul.

12. How does Hans feel about his cigars losing their flavor?
(a) Rejoiced.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Depressed.

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

14. What does Joachim say is different in the mountains?
(a) The water.
(b) People.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Time.

15. When does Hans feel healthy?
(a) Never.
(b) Always.
(c) When he is doing nothing.
(d) When he watches Clavdia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hans' mother die from?

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

3. What kind of conversation does Settembrini use?

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

5. What does Hans plan to do on Monday in Chapter 4?

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