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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the couple discover are falling from a broken cable car high above the mountains?
(a) Black cats.
(b) Sky divers.
(c) Stars.
(d) Several hotel guests.

2. What does Lionheart say about the hotel?
(a) The things happening at the hotel are not so common.
(b) It is possessed and everyone should leave.
(c) The things happening at the hotel are common.
(d) It is the best hotel he has ever vacationed.

3. How does the couple return to their room?
(a) Filled with sadness.
(b) Filled with desire.
(c) Tired.
(d) Hungry.

4. What does the army major, Lionheart, announce?
(a) A war has begun in Europe and many countries are involved.
(b) He is leaving the hotel, because it is too dangerous.
(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.

5. To what does the woman give birth?
(a) A girl.
(b) A boy.
(c) A wooden embryo.
(d) An alien.

6. What does the woman dream she is?
(a) A figurehead on a ship, the "Magdalen."
(b) The wife of the man.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A warrior princess.

7. 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.

8. What do an insurance broker and his wife say about one another?
(a) They want the others to help with the dead bodies.
(b) They wish the other had stayed in the hotel.
(c) They wish they had come to the hotel alone.
(d) They are glad they are with one another.

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

10. Why do the man and woman switch trains?
(a) The train they are on breaks down.
(b) They train smells badly.
(c) Their train is too crowded.
(d) To go up into the mountains to the hotel.

11. What does a watchmaker point out?
(a) The snow/stars are melting.
(b) The clocks have all stopped.
(c) The lake is turning red.
(d) The elm trees' leaves have all turned red.

12. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?
(a) She wants a toothbrush.
(b) She needs soap.
(c) She is menstruating.
(d) She would like a comb.

13. Why do Madame Cottin, the woman, and the man begin to kiss and touch one another?
(a) It makes Madame Cottin forget her sadness.
(b) They are in love with one another.
(c) They have nothing else to do.
(d) Everyone else is kissing and touching.

14. What does the mistress of a salesman assume is the cause of the fire?
(a) Faulty wiring.
(b) A candle that had been knocked over.
(c) A sap-covered chimney.
(d) One of the maids smoking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is the woman obsessed?

2. What does Freud call the 29-year-old woman in a case study?

3. How does the black cat survive the flood?

4. Where does the man take a woman, the poet?

5. Why does the hotel let in a young woman?

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