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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. To what does the woman give birth?
(a) A boy.
(b) A wooden embryo.
(c) A girl.
(d) An alien.

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

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

4. The first letter, written September 8, 1909, is from Sandor Ferenczi to whom?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Her Kuhn.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) His lover, Gisela.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?

2. What does the ice do?

3. Where does the man take a woman, the poet?

4. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?

5. With what is the woman obsessed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

3. The couple returns to their room filled with desire. Who do they bring with them?

4. Why does Ferenczi fear Gisela does not want to marry him?

5. Describe the guests' falls from the broken cable car.

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

7. What does the secretary admit to seeing?

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

9. What do the guests find to be odd about the hotel?

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

(see the answer keys)

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