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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Gastein Journal, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the fictional letters between Sigmund Freud, his colleagues, and their friends contain?
(a) Unusual psychosexual writings of one of Freud's young patients.
(b) Love poems between Freud and his mistress.
(c) Suggestions for new therapy techniques.
(d) Accounts of the day Freud spends with the composer Gustav Mahler.

2. Why does Bolotnikov-Leskov, a politician, say the whales could have been "called" by Madame Cottin?
(a) She is a "whale-caller."
(b) She looks similar to a whale.
(c) She uses whale bones in her corset work.
(d) Whales love her voice.

3. What is no one is able to explain?
(a) The emerald lake.
(b) The attraction between the man and woman.
(c) The stars, lightning, or red leaves, nor the glaciers that top the mountains.
(d) The reason for the hotel being white.

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

5. What is the man doing, as the woman wakes up?
(a) Making breakfast.
(b) Crying.
(c) Watching her.
(d) Sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the woman say dies while they are at the hotel?

2. What does the Major say about the crowding on the yacht?

3. One night as the woman and man are having sex, what are they watching fall into the lake?

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

5. What does the woman begin to do after being at the hotel for several days?

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