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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the women plummet to their death more slowly?
(a) They hang on for dear life to the broken cable car.
(b) They are dropping from a higher altitude.
(c) They weigh less than the men.
(d) They are held up by their skirts.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sings to the woman?

2. How is the language in this section?

3. While the guests are gone, about what does Vogel confront Lionheart?

4. What does the woman begin to do after being at the hotel for several days?

5. Because there is so much milk, what does the chef do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is particularly shocking about the language? Why is it so shocking?

2. What does the woman describe? What accompanies her intense images?

3. Describe the woman and man. Where are they headed?

4. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

5. From the mountain the man points out what he believes to be parachutists, but what does the couple discover?

6. What happens when the woman dreams she is a figurehead?

7. What is the purpose of these postcards?

8. Name two other strange stories that the guests tell.

9. What do the guests do that are in the burning building?

10. What destruction does the storm cause?

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