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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the man and woman switch trains?

2. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?

3. What are falling in the form of snow?

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

5. What does the mistress of a salesman assume is the cause of the fire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

5. What is known about the young woman?

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

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

8. Who interrupts the couple by the stream? What does this character tell them?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa finds harmony and reconciliation at the camp.

Part 1) What kind of religious harmony?

Part 2) With whom does she reconcile?

Part 3) With what aspect of herself does she reconcile?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa receives letters regarding the deaths of two people close to her.

Part 1) Who are these two people?

Part 2) What events surround their deaths?

Part 3) How is Lisa affected by these deaths?

Essay Topic 3

The camp is a vision of the afterlife.

Part 1) Who is in this afterlife with Lisa?

Part 2) How would you envision the afterlife?

Part 3) Compare and contrast your vision of the afterlife with the vision of the afterlife in the book.

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