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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 does the pastor escort Vogel's sister out?

2. What do the couple and their guest do?

3. What do an insurance broker and his wife say about one another?

4. Why does the nun come to the spring?

5. What is no one is able to explain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe two of the post cards, regarding the fire.

2. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

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

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

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

6. What traumatic events does Freud believe relate to the flood and fire hallucination?

7. What happens when the couple returns to the dining room?

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

9. What destruction does the storm cause?

10. Why does Lionheart believe it is best for everyone to discuss the unusual events at the hotel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Lisa is preoccupied and obsessed with pregnancy.

Part 1) What images does the author use to portray this?

Part 2) Why is she preoccupied with pregnancy?

Part 3) How do her obsession with and premonitions about pregnancy come to fruition in her real life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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