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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Lionheart reply to Vogel?
(a) He needs to get his sleep, and he is tired of hearing the mourners' cries.
(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) It is best for everyone's safety if they realize that things are not quite right at the white hotel.

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

4. Why does Freud say the woman is a cello player?
(a) To represent her as a musician.
(b) Freud would like her to play the cello.
(c) Anna is a virtuoso on the cello.
(d) To keep Anna's true identity hidden.

5. Over what does a botanist mourn?
(a) His beautiful orchids.
(b) His dangerous poison ivy.
(c) His rare specimen of edelweiss.
(d) His unusual daisies.

6. What do the couple and their guest do?
(a) Drink champagne.
(b) Discuss the storm.
(c) Sit on the balcony.
(d) Have sex together.

7. When the woman wakes up in the hotel room, why is she relieved?
(a) The Professor has arrived.
(b) Her mother has returned.
(c) The room is warm and peaceful.
(d) The man is there.

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

9. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?
(a) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.
(b) An automobile fire that traps her sister, and a terrible storm when she is at sea.
(c) Her mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(d) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.

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

11. Why does the woman continue to question the soldier?
(a) To distract herself from the visions she is having of him in his coffin.
(b) She finds him very attractive and loves the sound of his voice.
(c) She is very interested in knowing as much as she can about the soldier.
(d) She is fascinated with war and wants to know details of his battles.

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

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

14. Where does the man take a woman, the poet?
(a) To a secluded train car.
(b) To a white hotel by an emerald lake.
(c) To his home.
(d) To the dungeon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?

2. Who is the first to drink from the breast?

3. What does the couple do when the weather improves?

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

5. 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?

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