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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 woman ask the maid for some toiletries?

2. What does an opera singer tell her family?

3. In the wake of the woman's mother's death, why does her father leave her to her nurse and governess?

4. What does the couple discover are falling from a broken cable car high above the mountains?

5. How does Lionheart reply to Vogel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

3. Describe the woman and man. Where are they headed?

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

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

6. Why has the Japanese maid been crying?

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

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

9. What do the people on the yacht do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book opens with a series of letters.

Part 1) Describe these letters' authors and receivers.

Part 2) Describe the contents of the letters.

Part 3) What is the purpose of these letters?

Essay Topic 2

Madame Cottin represents a woman in Lisa's life.

Part 1) Who does Madame Cottin symbolize?

Part 2) What are the similarities between Madame Cottin and the woman in Lisa's life?

Part 3) Madame Cottin, the man, and the woman are intimate. What is the significance of this?

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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