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

2. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?
(a) The audience will include members of the Italian government.
(b) She has not performed in several years.
(c) She has never performed at La Scala.
(d) She feels too old to sing the part of a young girl.

3. Where is the woman when she sits next to a young soldier?
(a) In a carriage.
(b) On a train.
(c) On a plane.
(d) In an automobile.

4. Why does Freud say the woman is a cello player?
(a) To represent her as a musician.
(b) Freud would like her to play the cello.
(c) Anna is a virtuoso on the cello.
(d) To keep Anna's true identity hidden.

5. Why do the man and woman switch trains?
(a) They train smells badly.
(b) Their train is too crowded.
(c) The train they are on breaks down.
(d) To go up into the mountains to the hotel.

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. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?

3. The couple looks at photographs of the soldier's family, and while the woman is drawn to Freud, about whom does the soldier seem concerned?

4. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?

5. What happens as the woman feels bullets hitting her?

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