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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Settembrini urge Hans to do?
(a) Ask Clavdia on a date.
(b) Allow Dr. Behrens to examine him.
(c) Take psychoanalytical sessions with Dr. Krokowski.
(d) Leave the Berghof.

2. What passes without comment in October?
(a) Hans' marriage to Clavdia.
(b) Joachim's discharge deadline.
(c) Naphta's birthday.
(d) Settembrini's death.

3. What does Hans do when he realizes that Settembrini does not want him to see Naphta again?
(a) Yields to Settembrini's opinion.
(b) Feigns innocence and visits Naphta's room in town.
(c) Settembrini does not feel that way.
(d) Confronts Settembrini to learn his reasoning

4. What begins a heated argument between Settembrini and Naphta at a tavern?
(a) Joachim's desire to return to a soldier's life
(b) An innocent joke about Virgil.
(c) There is no argument.
(d) Caring for Hans.

5. What causes the tensions and rivalries amongst Hans' group of friends?
(a) Hans' relationship with Clavdia.
(b) Hans' friendship with Settembrini.
(c) Clavdia ignoring Hans.
(d) Peeperkorn's anger at Hans.

6. What does Peeperkorn tell Hans that he takes for his ailments?
(a) Insulin.
(b) Tropical medicines.
(c) Quinine.
(d) Penicillin.

7. Who claims that classicism furthers the human enterprise?
(a) Settembrini.
(b) Naphta.
(c) Joachim.
(d) Hans.

8. Who does Naphta mock as a champion of progressive idealism and utopian notions?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Rousseau.

9. What are Hans and Settembrini doing when they fall into an open argument?
(a) Discussing Clavdia.
(b) There is no argument.
(c) Watching Joachim leave.
(d) Waiting for the Sunday mail.

10. Who claims that his love for Clavdia is a burning torment?
(a) Leo Naphta.
(b) Ferdinand Wehsal.
(c) Ludovico Settembrini.
(d) Hans Castorp.

11. Who is getting worse but leaves the Berghof without authorization anyway because they cannot stand it anymore?
(a) Clavdia.
(b) Joachim.
(c) Hans.
(d) Frau Salomon.

12. As Walpurgis Night approaches, who reproaches Hans for playing fast and loose with time in his conversation?
(a) Joachim.
(b) Clavdia.
(c) Settembrini.
(d) Behrens.

13. How are Naphta's rooms decorated?
(a) Lavishly with red and purple silk brocade.
(b) Poorly due to his destitution.
(c) Naphta's rooms are never described.
(d) In black and white decor.

14. Who hosts parties and outings to local sites?
(a) Peeperkorn.
(b) Hans.
(c) Behrens.
(d) Joachim.

15. What does Peeperkorn use to commit suicide?
(a) A knife.
(b) A rope hung from his closet.
(c) A hypodermic needle filled with tropical poison.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, who performs a parlor trick of drawing a pig blindfolded in one long stroke?

2. Who is a Freemason?

3. What is Peeperkorn recovering from when Hans visits him?

4. What does Naphta say is the instrument of the Kingdom of God?

5. Who does Settembrini introduce Hans and Joachim to in Chapter 6?

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