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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 the woman begin to do after being at the hotel for several days?

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

3. Who sings to the woman?

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

5. Why does the nun come to the spring?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is particularly shocking about the language? Why is it so shocking?

3. What destruction does the storm cause?

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

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

6. The couple returns to their room filled with desire. Who do they bring with them?

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

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

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

10. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Lisa never has children of her own.

Part 1) Who becomes her adopted child? Why?

Part 2) What is the relationship like between Lisa and this child?

Part 3) What does Lisa sacrifice for this child? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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