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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Gastein Journal, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the man and woman embarrassed when a nun comes across them?
(a) They are swimming nude in the river.
(b) They had been talking about her.
(c) They are having sex by a stream.
(d) They had been saying horrible things about the Catholic church.

2. How does the couple find the hotel on their return?
(a) Flooded.
(b) Lively.
(c) Burned to the ground.
(d) Empty.

3. How do the young man and woman react to the destruction?
(a) They watch in awe at the destruction.
(b) They call for help.
(c) They are practically oblivious.
(d) They try to help save the other hotel guests.

4. Where do the man and woman take a walk?
(a) Around the interior of the white hotel.
(b) Up the mountainside near the white hotel.
(c) Into town.
(d) By the lake.

5. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?
(a) "La Boheme."
(b) "Rigoletto."
(c) "Don Giovanni."
(d) "Madame Butterfly."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud have no trouble analyzing?

3. What happens as the woman feels bullets hitting her?

4. Who does Freud lose?

5. Who does the couple bring with them to their room?

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