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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 are these girl's writings inspiring Freud to do?

2. What is no one is able to explain?

3. One night as the woman and man are having sex, what are they watching fall into the lake?

4. What does the couple do when the weather improves?

5. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of these postcards?

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

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

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

6. Describe the post cards that tell of more general events.

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

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

9. What destruction does the storm cause?

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

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

Lisa has the ability to predict the future.

Part 1) Give two examples from the book of accurate predictions.

Part 2) What is the connection between her obsessions with sex, death, and pregnancy and real life events?

Part 3) Does Freud believe she can predict the future? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Lisa receives letters regarding the deaths of two people close to her.

Part 1) Who are these two people?

Part 2) What events surround their deaths?

Part 3) How is Lisa affected by these deaths?

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