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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. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?
(a) She trips leaving her flat.
(b) She slips on the icy street.
(c) Falling down the steps in La Scala.
(d) Her arm becomes caught in an automobile door.

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

3. In the wake of the woman's mother's death, why does her father leave her to her nurse and governess?
(a) He does not know how to raise a child.
(b) He does not love her.
(c) He grows increasingly distant.
(d) He must leave on business.

4. 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) "Madame Butterfly."
(c) "Rigoletto."
(d) "Don Giovanni."

5. Two days later, how is the hotel still feeling the affects of the storm?
(a) The number of hotel guests is significantly lower.
(b) One wing of the hotel has not been repaired.
(c) There is no food to serve.
(d) The storm has flooded the basement and billiard room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?

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

3. Why must the woman leave the ballet school?

4. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?

5. What does the man do to the woman's hair?

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