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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. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?
(a) She needs soap.
(b) She would like a comb.
(c) She wants a toothbrush.
(d) She is menstruating.

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) "Rigoletto."
(b) "La Boheme."
(c) "Don Giovanni."
(d) "Madame Butterfly."

3. What does the Lutheran pastor say he saw flying through the trees?
(a) A melting clock.
(b) Ants.
(c) A bird.
(d) A breast.

4. Why must the woman leave the ballet school?
(a) She does not have the money to attend the school.
(b) She no longer enjoys ballet.
(c) She is gaining weight.
(d) She is not graceful.

5. Why does the nun come to the spring?
(a) To wash linens for Father Marek and other Catholics' burials.
(b) To escape the other nuns.
(c) To see the young couple.
(d) To get fresh water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what is the woman obsessed?

3. What does the man do to the woman's hair?

4. What is no one is able to explain?

5. What is the only thing the woman really wants from her missing luggage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the couple decide to do after an unknown number of days?

3. What destruction does the storm cause?

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

5. Who does the woman address in the final section? What does she say?

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

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

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

9. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

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

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