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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the woman when she sits next to a young soldier?
(a) On a plane.
(b) On a train.
(c) In a carriage.
(d) In an automobile.

2. What are these girl's writings inspiring Freud to do?
(a) Examine the death instinct as well as sexual behavior.
(b) End his career in psychoanalysis.
(c) Write a book for his daughter.
(d) Take prescription medication.

3. Who does Freud lose?
(a) His mind.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter.

4. Why are the man and woman embarrassed when a nun comes across them?
(a) They are swimming nude in the river.
(b) They had been saying horrible things about the Catholic church.
(c) They had been talking about her.
(d) They are having sex by a stream.

5. While the guests are gone, about what does Vogel confront Lionheart?
(a) Panicking the ladies with his ideas.
(b) His idea about forming a militia.
(c) Complaining about the guests' mourning cries keeping him awake at night.
(d) His unusual manner of dress.

6. What does Vogel, breaking down, admit he sees?
(a) A child in the water.
(b) Stars in his eyes.
(c) Angels in the trees.
(d) A petrified embryo floating in the lake.

7. One day, where does the chef appear?
(a) Outside the couple's window.
(b) In the lake.
(c) In the parlor.
(d) On the mountain.

8. What does the woman believe are falling into the lake?
(a) White feathers.
(b) Bits of a comet.
(c) Stars.
(d) White roses.

9. That night, who begins to produce milk?
(a) The corsetmaker.
(b) The woman.
(c) The man.
(d) The chef.

10. On what does the woman originally write her fantasy?
(a) A napkin.
(b) A journal.
(c) A bed sheet.
(d) A score of "Don Giovanni."

11. Why does the hotel let in a young woman?
(a) She is related to the chef.
(b) She begs to be let in.
(c) She wants to work at the hotel.
(d) She is going to have a baby.

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

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

14. What does the Lutheran pastor say he saw flying through the trees?
(a) A melting clock.
(b) Ants.
(c) A bird.
(d) A breast.

15. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?
(a) "Rigoletto."
(b) "La Boheme."
(c) "Don Giovanni."
(d) "Madame Butterfly."

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the woman compare the wind and lightning?

2. What happens to those outside the hotel?

3. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?

4. What does the couple do as others mourn?

5. What do the postcards from guests at the hotel describe?

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