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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Hans describe the old woman in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) As hideous.
(b) As tragic-looking.
(c) He does not see an old woman.
(d) As beautiful.

5. Who states that there is something edifying about death?
(a) Hans.
(b) Settembrini.
(c) Clavdia.
(d) Joachim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thinks that music can perform the reasonable function of measuring time?

2. What does the whistler's group call themselves?

3. Who refers to the written word as "the bearer of the human intellect"?

4. What is the name of the Catholic patient that Joachim tells Hans about in Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer key)

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