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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the storm destroy?
(a) A tree and the hotel.
(b) Automobiles and tents.
(c) The lake and a dock.
(d) A pagoda and a boat.

2. Over what does a botanist mourn?
(a) His dangerous poison ivy.
(b) His beautiful orchids.
(c) His rare specimen of edelweiss.
(d) His unusual daisies.

3. What is the connection between what Vogel admits to seeing and what his sister confesses?
(a) His sister prays to the angels.
(b) His sister had her small child with her on the trip.
(c) His sister confesses to an abortion 10 years earlier.
(d) His sister's favorite shape is a star.

4. Why does a drunken Vogel say the accident is not as bad as it could have been?
(a) There were not many people on the cable car.
(b) He was not one of the victims, so he finds that to be very fortunate.
(c) Several of the people who died were "Yids" (a derogatory term for Jews).
(d) Several of the people who fell landed on soft bushes and survived.

5. What does the ice do?
(a) Keeps their food cold.
(b) Causes hypothermia.
(c) Stabs the man.
(d) Cuts off one of the woman's breasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the couple do when the weather improves?

2. Soon, who else is drinking the woman's milk?

3. Why do the women plummet to their death more slowly?

4. From the mountain the man points out what he believes to be what?

5. How does the black cat survive the flood?

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