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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?
(a) He is already married.
(b) Her family does not approve of him.
(c) He is a priest.
(d) She is already married.

4. With whom does the couple fall in love?
(a) The paralyzed couple.
(b) Madame Cottin.
(c) The priest.
(d) The chef.

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

6. The couple looks at photographs of the soldier's family, and while the woman is drawn to Freud, about whom does the soldier seem concerned?
(a) His older brother.
(b) The woman.
(c) His mother.
(d) His little sister.

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

8. What does Freud tell Ferenczi, regarding the girl's writings?
(a) They are psychotic.
(b) She gave birth to them.
(c) She needs to be institutionalized.
(d) They are the most interesting he has studied.

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

10. Who does the Japanese maid describe?
(a) A "sun couple."
(b) A "meteor shower couple."
(c) A "moon couple."
(d) A "falling star couple."

11. To what does the woman compare the wind and lightning?
(a) To the beginning of time.
(b) To the intensity of sex with the man.
(c) A tornado.
(d) To the apocalypse.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does an old nurse describe?

2. The first letter, written September 8, 1909, is from Sandor Ferenczi to whom?

3. What excites the man so much that they start having sex again?

4. What is no one is able to explain?

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

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