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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. On what does the woman originally write her fantasy?

2. Why do other hotel guests drown?

3. Why does the priest drink from the breast?

4. What does Lionheart say about the hotel?

5. Why can Ferenczi not marry Gisela?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the chapter begin?

5. What is known about the young woman?

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

7. What is the purpose of these postcards?

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

9. What does the milk mean to the various characters?

10. Describe Frued's case study.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Lisa and Kolya are killed at Bal Yari.

Part 1) How do the Germans convince the Jews to leave their homes?

Part 2) Lisa, who is not a Jew, still goes. Why?

Part 3) How does Lisa try to save both herself and Kolya? Why is she unsuccessful?

Essay Topic 2

Madame Cottin, the Japanese maid, and others fall to their deaths from a broken cable car.

Part 1) Why does this sexually excite the man?

Part 2) Why does Madame Cottin feel free as she falls?

Part 3) What might be the author's purpose for using a cable car as the vehicle of death?

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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