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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Health Resort, Section 1.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) "La Boheme."
(b) "Don Giovanni."
(c) "Madame Butterfly."
(d) "Rigoletto."

2. What does the couple do when the weather improves?
(a) They go down to dinner with the other guests.
(b) They go out to the balcony and watch the Leonid meteor shower.
(c) They go out by the lake and fish.
(d) They go out to the balcony and watch the falling stars.

3. What does the man do to the woman's hair?
(a) He lights it on fire with his cigar.
(b) He cuts it.
(c) He plays with it.
(d) He brushes it.

4. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?
(a) His first wife and their son died during a war.
(b) He worries about the health of his child.
(c) He knows fatherhood is a difficult job.
(d) He is not sure if he wants children.

5. Why is the woman's mother estranged from her family?
(a) She has an argument with her father.
(b) She marries a Russian Jew.
(c) She marries a Polish Catholic.
(d) She has never gotten along with her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. It's 1929, and an opera singer named Frau Elisabeth (Lisa) Erdman is traveling from Vienna to what city to perform in a show?

2. On the second night at the hotel a storm comes. What happens?

3. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?

4. Two days later, how is the hotel still feeling the affects of the storm?

5. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?

(see the answer key)

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