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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?
(a) An automobile fire that traps her sister, and a terrible storm when she is at sea.
(b) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.
(c) Her mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(d) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.

3. What happens while the man and woman are on the yacht?
(a) The other guests dive off of the yacht.
(b) The yacht sinks.
(c) One wing of the hotel catches fire.
(d) The yacht catches fire.

4. What does the couple do as others mourn?
(a) They row the yacht back to shore.
(b) They laugh hysterically.
(c) They make love.
(d) They mourn as well.

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

6. The couple ventures down the mountain a ways, and then where do they stop?
(a) At a picnic table.
(b) In a peaceful ravine.
(c) At a small platform with a telescope.
(d) At a fork in the road.

7. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?
(a) She is late to the party.
(b) She is chasing an animal.
(c) From unknown pursuers.
(d) Toward a clearing.

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

9. Where do the man and woman take a walk?
(a) Into town.
(b) By the lake.
(c) Up the mountainside near the white hotel.
(d) Around the interior of the white hotel.

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

11. What does the army major, Lionheart, announce?
(a) He is leaving the hotel, because it is too dangerous.
(b) A war has begun in Europe and many countries are involved.
(c) He is organizing a militia to protect the guests.
(d) He would like to meet with everyone in the billiard room to discuss something urgent.

12. Who does the couple bring with them to their room?
(a) The chef.
(b) The priest.
(c) A member of the hotel band.
(d) The corsetiere.

13. 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.

14. What does Freud call the 29-year-old woman in a case study?
(a) Frau Anna G.
(b) Frau Greta W.
(c) Frau Maria V.
(d) Frau Lisa G.

15. Why can the dreamer not escape?
(a) The dream will not end.
(b) The trap door cannot be opened.
(c) The room is black and she cannot see.
(d) She is chained to the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is the woman obsessed?

2. How does a pastor comfort himself?

3. Why does a drunken Vogel say the accident is not as bad as it could have been?

4. What does the couple celebrate?

5. What does the woman use to reveal her character?

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