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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. The couple looks at photographs of the soldier's family, and while the woman is drawn to Freud, about whom does the soldier seem concerned?
(a) His little sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His older brother.
(d) The woman.

2. How do the young man and woman react to the destruction?
(a) They are practically oblivious.
(b) They try to help save the other hotel guests.
(c) They watch in awe at the destruction.
(d) They call for help.

3. What does the force of the weather do?
(a) Kills the man.
(b) Wrecks the yacht.
(c) Tears out the woman's womb.
(d) Drowns some of the passengers on the yacht.

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) "Madame Butterfly."
(b) "Don Giovanni."
(c) "La Boheme."
(d) "Rigoletto."

5. What excites the man so much that they start having sex again?
(a) The falling stars.
(b) He and the woman are safe.
(c) The corsetiere falls from the broken cable car.
(d) The woman takes off her clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mistress of a salesman assume is the cause of the fire?

2. On what does the woman originally write her fantasy?

3. What does an opera singer tell her family?

4. What are these girl's writings inspiring Freud to do?

5. The first letter, written September 8, 1909, is from Sandor Ferenczi to whom?

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