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

2. 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 loses power.
(c) The hotel collapses.
(d) The man and woman leave.

3. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?
(a) After her performance at La Scala.
(b) After seeing the Shroud.
(c) After mass.
(d) After her last session with Freud.

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

5. What happens as the woman feels bullets hitting her?
(a) She dies.
(b) She wakes up.
(c) She bleeds.
(d) She feels pain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is the woman's mother estranged from her family?

(see the answer key)

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