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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims that he has never met a perfectly healthy person?

2. How does Hans feel about the image of his grandfather in his coffin?

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

4. When does Hans feel healthy?

5. Who states that there is something edifying about death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hans and Settembrini's encounter at the beginning of Chapter 4.

2. What does Dr. Krokowski do at the end of his lecture in Chapter 4, and what does it remind Hans of?

3. What does Settembrini say about music in relation to Hans?

4. What does Joachim explain to Hans about the woman called Tous-les-deux at their first breakfast in Chapter 3?

5. What does Hans believe portrays the real image of his grandfather, and how does Hans feel that his grandfather reverts to his real self?

6. Why does Settembrini interrupt his learned banter at the end of Chapter 3?

7. What does a female patient do in Chapter 3 that annoys Hans?

8. Who is Tienappel?

9. How does Hans tell Joachim that he feels about death in Chapter 4?

10. Who is Barbara Hujus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it significant that Mann discloses Hans' past? How does this affect the reader? What does this clarify or confuse within the text?

Essay Topic 2

How does Hans and Settembrini's friendship affect the story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the main themes in this novel (mountains and magic, connection to "Death in Venice", illness and death, etc..) and detail its recurrences throughout the novel. What does it add to the novel? How does it affect the difference characters?

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