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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Soon, who else is drinking the woman's milk?
(a) The cat.
(b) Infants.
(c) Many other guests and the hotel band.
(d) The maids and butler.

3. How does a pastor comfort himself?
(a) He is a faithful Christian.
(b) Knowing the dead will be raised.
(c) The believers will go to heaven.
(d) Jesus Christ suffered worse.

4. Why is the Japanese maid crying?
(a) She had become friends with Lionheart, who died in the landslide.
(b) She dislikes her job.
(c) She is in love with the young man.
(d) She is in love with the young woman.

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

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

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

8. What does Vogel, breaking down, admit he sees?
(a) A petrified embryo floating in the lake.
(b) A child in the water.
(c) Angels in the trees.
(d) Stars in his eyes.

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

10. Why does a drunken Vogel say the accident is not as bad as it could have been?
(a) There were not many people on the cable car.
(b) He was not one of the victims, so he finds that to be very fortunate.
(c) Several of the people who fell landed on soft bushes and survived.
(d) Several of the people who died were "Yids" (a derogatory term for Jews).

11. When do the shooting stars appear?
(a) When the woman is particularly ecstatic.
(b) Right before the storm begins.
(c) At the end of the storm.
(d) In the middle of the storm.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the connection between what Vogel admits to seeing and what his sister confesses?

2. How does the couple find the hotel on their return?

3. When the woman wakes up in the hotel room, why is she relieved?

4. With whom does the couple fall in love?

5. What happens while the man and woman are on the yacht?

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