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

2. Why does the woman continue to question the soldier?
(a) She finds him very attractive and loves the sound of his voice.
(b) To distract herself from the visions she is having of him in his coffin.
(c) She is very interested in knowing as much as she can about the soldier.
(d) She is fascinated with war and wants to know details of his battles.

3. On the second night at the hotel a storm comes. What happens?
(a) A large rock flies through the couple's window.
(b) The hotel collapses.
(c) The hotel loses power.
(d) The man and woman leave.

4. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?
(a) La Garafano.
(b) La Scala.
(c) La Cecchetti.
(d) L'Orlando.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the man and woman switch trains?

3. Why does Freud say the woman is a cello player?

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

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

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