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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Gastein Journal, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ice do?
(a) Stabs the man.
(b) Keeps their food cold.
(c) Cuts off one of the woman's breasts.
(d) Causes hypothermia.

2. Why does Bolotnikov-Leskov, a politician, say the whales could have been "called" by Madame Cottin?
(a) She looks similar to a whale.
(b) She is a "whale-caller."
(c) She uses whale bones in her corset work.
(d) Whales love her voice.

3. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?
(a) She is late to the party.
(b) Toward a clearing.
(c) She is chasing an animal.
(d) From unknown pursuers.

4. What does the couple do as others mourn?
(a) They laugh hysterically.
(b) They row the yacht back to shore.
(c) They mourn as well.
(d) They make love.

5. Why is the Japanese maid crying?
(a) She dislikes her job.
(b) She had become friends with Lionheart, who died in the landslide.
(c) She is in love with the young woman.
(d) She is in love with the young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?

2. Why does the hotel let in a young woman?

3. When do the shooting stars appear?

4. On what does the woman originally write her fantasy?

5. What does the woman ask the Professor?

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