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

2. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?
(a) "La Boheme."
(b) "Don Giovanni."
(c) "Madame Butterfly."
(d) "Rigoletto."

3. Who is the first to drink from the breast?
(a) The priest.
(b) The chef.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

4. Why does Bolotnikov-Leskov, a politician, say the whales could have been "called" by Madame Cottin?
(a) She looks similar to a whale.
(b) Whales love her voice.
(c) She uses whale bones in her corset work.
(d) She is a "whale-caller."

5. What is no one is able to explain?
(a) The attraction between the man and woman.
(b) The reason for the hotel being white.
(c) The stars, lightning, or red leaves, nor the glaciers that top the mountains.
(d) The emerald lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?

2. On what does the woman originally write her fantasy?

3. What can the young man not stop doing?

4. What rumor does a retired couple pass on?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the secretary admit to seeing?

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

4. What happens after the woman begins to produce milk?

5. Over what do the woman and man argue?

6. What takes place between the man and the woman?

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

8. What is the purpose of these postcards?

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

10. What destruction does the storm cause?

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