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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 do as others mourn?
(a) They make love.
(b) They mourn as well.
(c) They laugh hysterically.
(d) They row the yacht back to shore.

2. On the second night at the hotel a storm comes. What happens?
(a) The man and woman leave.
(b) The hotel loses power.
(c) A large rock flies through the couple's window.
(d) The hotel collapses.

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

4. How does Lionheart reply to Vogel?
(a) It is best for everyone's safety if they realize that things are not quite right at the white hotel.
(b) To create a militia is the best way to keep everyone safe.
(c) He feels most comfortable in his army fatigues and has no desire to change his attire.
(d) He needs to get his sleep, and he is tired of hearing the mourners' cries.

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

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

7. What does the force of the weather do?
(a) Tears out the woman's womb.
(b) Kills the man.
(c) Wrecks the yacht.
(d) Drowns some of the passengers on the yacht.

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

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

10. To what does Sachs compare the woman's fantasy?
(a) The writings of Andre Breton.
(b) Eden before the fall.
(c) The crucifixion.
(d) The mind of Salvador Dali.

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

12. Why does the hotel let in a young woman?
(a) She begs to be let in.
(b) She is related to the chef.
(c) She is going to have a baby.
(d) She wants to work at the hotel.

13. Why is the hotel having to turn people away?
(a) The hotel is cursed.
(b) There are so many guests.
(c) There are no employees left to run the hotel.
(d) The hotel is destroyed.

14. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?
(a) She is chasing an animal.
(b) She is late to the party.
(c) From unknown pursuers.
(d) Toward a clearing.

15. What are falling in the form of snow?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The moons.
(c) The stars.
(d) The birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two days later, how is the hotel still feeling the affects of the storm?

2. Why can the dreamer not escape?

3. What does the storm destroy?

4. What does Lionheart say about the hotel?

5. How is the young woman before her illness?

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