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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. What does Hans use to argue against Settembrini?

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

3. What request does Peeperkorn make that Hans refuses?

4. Where does Peeperkorn host an excursion to in May?

5. What do the patients having affairs use to visit one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Joachim and Hans discuss on their way back to the Berghof after leaving Settembrini and Naphta?

2. What do Hans and Clavdia discuss in the salon in Chapter 7?

3. Why is Hans summoned the day after an excursion to a famous waterfall in the nearby Fluela Valley?

4. How does Hans react when Clavdia returns to the Berghof in Chapter 7, and why?

5. What happens at the Berghof as spring approaches?

6. Describe Naphta's apartment.

7. What does Settembrini tell Hans that he plans to do in Chapter 6, and why?

8. Describe Hans' interactions with Clavdia on Walpurgis Night.

9. What do Hans and Settembrini argue about that causes Hans to accuse Settembrini of offering hypocritical advice?

10. Describe Joachim's death and the illness leading to it.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 2

Investigate "The Magic Mountain" as a bildungsroman. How does it adhere to and differ from the bildungsroman novel? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as a bildungsroman? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the novel as a bildungsroman?

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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