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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hans feel that Settembrini criticizes him for in Chapter 4?
(a) Buying blankets.
(b) Being at the Berghof.
(c) Loving Clavdia.
(d) He feels Joachim criticizes him, not Settembrini.

2. What is the name of Hans' favorite cigar?
(a) Joachim Niemssen.
(b) Clavdia Chauchat.
(c) Maria Mancini.
(d) Hans does not smoke cigars.

3. What does Dr. Krokowski lecture about in Chapter 4?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Illness.

4. What does Hans' mother die from?
(a) An embolism.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Flu.
(d) Pneumonia.

5. Who does Hans learn has recently died in his room?
(a) An American woman.
(b) An Austrian horseman
(c) His aunt.
(d) Clavdia Chauchat.

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

7. Who claims that he has never met a perfectly healthy person?
(a) Dr. Krokowski.
(b) Clavdia.
(c) Dr. Behrens.
(d) Joachim.

8. What is Settembrini's reason for his feelings about music?
(a) It makes him happy.
(b) It attracts young women.
(c) He has no feelings about music.
(d) It inflames the emotions.

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

10. What is the old woman in black called?
(a) Tous-les-deux.
(b) Madame Chauchat.
(c) Dr. Krokowski.
(d) Frau Stohr.

11. What happens when Hans stops by a brook?
(a) He trips and falls.
(b) He suffers a nosebleed.
(c) He cries.
(d) He nearly drowns.

12. How long is Hans confined to bed rest in Chapter 5?
(a) Four months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Four weeks.

13. What is the name of the whistler?
(a) Lodovic Settembrini.
(b) Clavdia Chauchat.
(c) Hermine Kleefeld.
(d) Leo Naphta.

14. Who does Settembrini compare to Odysseus?
(a) Krokowski.
(b) Behrens.
(c) Hans.
(d) Joachim.

15. What kind of situations does Hans do best with?
(a) Those connected to the future.
(b) Those connected to nothing.
(c) Those connected to romance.
(d) Those connected to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hans doing by his third day at the Berghof?

2. What is the old woman doing at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. What does Joachim say is not taken seriously at the Berghof?

4. What is removed during meals and at night?

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

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