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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. About what does a lawyer complain?
(a) All the people wailing over dead people are keeping him up at night.
(b) He is not getting as many clients as he thought he would after the disasters.
(c) Not having enough options of things to occupy his time at the hotel.
(d) The guests have not asked him to sue the owner of the hotel.

2. How do the young man and woman react to the destruction?
(a) They call for help.
(b) They are practically oblivious.
(c) They watch in awe at the destruction.
(d) They try to help save the other hotel guests.

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

4. What does the couple do when the weather improves?
(a) They go down to dinner with the other guests.
(b) They go out by the lake and fish.
(c) They go out to the balcony and watch the falling stars.
(d) They go out to the balcony and watch the Leonid meteor shower.

5. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?
(a) He is a priest.
(b) Her family does not approve of him.
(c) He is already married.
(d) She is already married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an opera singer tell her family?

2. Who sings to the woman?

3. When do the shooting stars appear?

4. The couple ventures down the mountain a ways, and then where do they stop?

5. Where is the woman when she sits next to a young soldier?

Short Essay Questions

1. From whom are the letters?

2. How does one know with what the woman is obsessed?

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

4. Why are the young woman's writings intriguing to Freud?

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

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

7. What takes place between the woman and man on the train?

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

9. Why does Lionheart believe it is best for everyone to discuss the unusual events at the hotel?

10. What does the secretary admit to seeing?

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