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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 Freud say the woman is a cello player?

2. What do the couple and their guest do?

3. That night, who begins to produce milk?

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

5. Because there is so much milk, what does the chef do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of these postcards?

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

4. Over what do the woman and man argue?

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

6. Describe two of the first post cards describing an afternoon on a yacht.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa's parents are of two different religions.

Part 1) What religions?

Part 2) How does this affect their relationships with their families?

Part 3) How does her father's religion affect Lisa?

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

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?

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