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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. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?
(a) She is menstruating.
(b) She wants a toothbrush.
(c) She needs soap.
(d) She would like a comb.

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

3. What does the couple do when the weather improves?
(a) They go out to the balcony and watch the falling stars.
(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 by the lake and fish.

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

5. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?
(a) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.
(b) An automobile fire that traps her sister, and a terrible storm when she is at sea.
(c) Her mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(d) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?

3. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?

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

5. Why do the man and woman switch trains?

(see the answer key)

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