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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) One wing of the hotel catches fire.
(d) The yacht catches fire.

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

3. What is the connection between what Vogel admits to seeing and what his sister confesses?
(a) His sister's favorite shape is a star.
(b) His sister prays to the angels.
(c) His sister had her small child with her on the trip.
(d) His sister confesses to an abortion 10 years earlier.

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

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

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

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

8. With what is the woman obsessed?
(a) Sex and death.
(b) The white hotel.
(c) Freud.
(d) Natural disasters.

9. What happens to those outside the hotel?
(a) A strong rain pours down on them.
(b) A landslide comes and buries them all.
(c) They are locked outside the hotel.
(d) They mourn the dead.

10. How does the couple return to their room?
(a) Tired.
(b) Hungry.
(c) Filled with sadness.
(d) Filled with desire.

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

12. What does an opera singer tell her family?
(a) She will be home very soon.
(b) She is injured during the fire.
(c) She is resting in the mountains.
(d) She is having a horrible time.

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

14. Why does the priest drink from the breast?
(a) Everyone else is drinking from it.
(b) He is attracted to the woman.
(c) He loves milk.
(d) The milk reminds him of his dying mother.

15. What does the man do to the woman's hair?
(a) He plays with it.
(b) He cuts it.
(c) He brushes it.
(d) He lights it on fire with his cigar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the man doing, as the woman wakes up?

3. What does the woman believe are falling into the lake?

4. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?

5. How is the young woman before her illness?

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