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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. What does Freud tell Ferenczi, regarding the girl's writings?

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

3. When do the shooting stars appear?

4. Where do the man and woman take a walk?

5. What does the Major say about the crowding on the yacht?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Frued's case study.

5. What destruction does the storm cause?

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

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

8. What does the secretary admit to seeing?

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

10. What do the people on the yacht do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa has suffered from two traumatic events in her childhood that lead to two events in her hallucination.

Part 1) What are these two events?

Part 2) What connection do these events have with her hallucination?

Part 3) How does she resolve this trauma by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Freud is inspired to research the Death Drive.

Part 1) What is the Death Drive?

Part 2) What does this research foreshadow?

Part 3) What is the relationship between the woman and the Death Drive?

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