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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the woman wakes up in the hotel room, why is she relieved?
(a) The room is warm and peaceful.
(b) The man is there.
(c) The Professor has arrived.
(d) Her mother has returned.

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

3. Why do other hotel guests drown?
(a) They cannot swim.
(b) There are not enough life preservers.
(c) The hotel is swallowed by a flooding river.
(d) There is a storm and a flood.

4. What rumor does a retired couple pass on?
(a) One of the maids is smoking.
(b) The manager of the hotel purposely set it on fire.
(c) The strange couple started the fire.
(d) The sun reflecting off snow on the mountains somehow caused the fire.

5. Why does the pastor escort Vogel's sister out?
(a) She is sobbing.
(b) She has passed out.
(c) She is vomiting.
(d) She is screaming.

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

7. Why does Freud give these writings away?
(a) As a way to forget Gisela.
(b) As a birthday gift.
(c) As a parting gift for Sachs' travels.
(d) As a warning to her father.

8. 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.

9. What does the Major say about the crowding on the yacht?
(a) He loves crowds and is sad so many guests were killed.
(b) He does not think the flood got rid of enough people.
(c) He is somewhat annoyed by the crowd but is sad so many were lost in the disasters.
(d) He enjoys meeting others, so he loves the crowd.

10. 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 mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(c) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.
(d) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.

11. Who is the first to drink from the breast?
(a) The man.
(b) The chef.
(c) The woman.
(d) The priest.

12. In the wake of the woman's mother's death, why does her father leave her to her nurse and governess?
(a) He does not love her.
(b) He grows increasingly distant.
(c) He does not know how to raise a child.
(d) He must leave on business.

13. What does the woman ask the Professor?
(a) Why there are so many disasters at the white hotel.
(b) Why he is not at the hotel.
(c) What his son's name is.
(d) If she is too sexual.

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

15. One night as the woman and man are having sex, what are they watching fall into the lake?
(a) Dogs, cats, and a chef.
(b) A boat, pagoda, and a cow.
(c) The sun, moon, and stars.
(d) Stars, roses, and orange trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Lutheran pastor say he saw flying through the trees?

3. The couple ventures down the mountain a ways, and then where do they stop?

4. To what does the woman give birth?

5. What does the couple do as others mourn?

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