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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the only thing the woman really wants from her missing luggage?
(a) Her soap.
(b) Her toothbrush.
(c) Her makeup.
(d) Her clothes.

4. Several days later, when the young couple returns to the dining room, what do they discover?
(a) The menu has changed.
(b) No food is being served.
(c) Their usual table is taken.
(d) They are the only ones in the dining room.

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

6. What happens to those outside the hotel?
(a) They are locked outside the hotel.
(b) They mourn the dead.
(c) A strong rain pours down on them.
(d) A landslide comes and buries them all.

7. Why is the woman's mother estranged from her family?
(a) She marries a Polish Catholic.
(b) She marries a Russian Jew.
(c) She has never gotten along with her mother.
(d) She has an argument with her father.

8. What is the woman glad is not missing?
(a) The man.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Any part of her body.
(d) A television.

9. The first letter, written September 8, 1909, is from Sandor Ferenczi to whom?
(a) His lover, Gisela.
(b) Her Kuhn.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

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

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

12. Who does an old nurse describe?
(a) The excellent service at the hotel.
(b) A young paralyzed couple that sits together on the yacht.
(c) The black cat that is stranded in the pine tree.
(d) The delicious food prepared by the chef.

13. Who sings to the woman?
(a) The Professor.
(b) The storm.
(c) The man.
(d) Whales.

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

15. Why do the women plummet to their death more slowly?
(a) They are held up by their skirts.
(b) They are dropping from a higher altitude.
(c) They weigh less than the men.
(d) They hang on for dear life to the broken cable car.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the black cat survive the flood?

2. How does Lionheart reply to Vogel?

3. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?

4. While the guests are gone, about what does Vogel confront Lionheart?

5. What does a watchmaker point out?

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