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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the nun come to the spring?
(a) To escape the other nuns.
(b) To see the young couple.
(c) To wash linens for Father Marek and other Catholics' burials.
(d) To get fresh water.

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

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

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

6. 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) To the apocalypse.
(d) A tornado.

7. What do the postcards from guests at the hotel describe?
(a) The beautiful lake.
(b) The odd guests.
(c) What they have experienced so far.
(d) The strange couple.

8. 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) His mother.
(c) The woman.
(d) His little sister.

9. Where do the man and woman take a walk?
(a) Around the interior of the white hotel.
(b) Up the mountainside near the white hotel.
(c) Into town.
(d) By the lake.

10. What does the storm destroy?
(a) A tree and the hotel.
(b) The lake and a dock.
(c) A pagoda and a boat.
(d) Automobiles and tents.

11. How is the young woman before her illness?
(a) She worked as a schoolmistress.
(b) A respectable, shy woman, who had been a gifted musician.
(c) Outgoing, energetic and very sociable.
(d) She had been a courtesan.

12. To whom does Freud give the young woman's writings?
(a) Sachs.
(b) Ferenczi.
(c) His daughter.
(d) The woman's father.

13. Where do the man and woman go after she is awake?
(a) To the balcony.
(b) To breakfast.
(c) Home.
(d) To the lake.

14. How does the black cat survive the flood?
(a) By sitting on top of the hotel roof.
(b) By swimming in the water.
(c) By climbing to the top of a pine tree.
(d) By clinging to the whale's back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does a lawyer complain?

2. When does the couple stop arguing?

3. Why do Madame Cottin, the woman, and the man begin to kiss and touch one another?

4. That night, who begins to produce milk?

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

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