According to the Text, Mann's the Magic Mountain Is an Allegory

question 82

Multiple Choice

According to the text, Mann's The Magic Mountain is an allegory for

• A) a group of tuberculosis patients in a sanitarium.
• B) the decomposition of the bourgeois west.
• C) the avant-garde artistic community.
• D) the Hollywood film community.
• E) the collapse of Communism.

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