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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to those outside the hotel?
(a) They mourn the dead.
(b) They are locked outside the hotel.
(c) A landslide comes and buries them all.
(d) A strong rain pours down on them.

2. What is the only thing the woman really wants from her missing luggage?
(a) Her makeup.
(b) Her soap.
(c) Her toothbrush.
(d) Her clothes.

3. Where does the man take a woman, the poet?
(a) To a secluded train car.
(b) To a white hotel by an emerald lake.
(c) To the dungeon.
(d) To his home.

4. Why does the woman continue to question the soldier?
(a) To distract herself from the visions she is having of him in his coffin.
(b) She is very interested in knowing as much as she can about the soldier.
(c) She is fascinated with war and wants to know details of his battles.
(d) She finds him very attractive and loves the sound of his voice.

5. What does the woman use to reveal her character?
(a) Descriptive words.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metaphors and similes.
(d) Poetic devices.

6. What does the woman begin to do after being at the hotel for several days?
(a) Go insane.
(b) Menstruate.
(c) Cook meals.
(d) Clean the rooms.

7. One day, where does the chef appear?
(a) In the parlor.
(b) Outside the couple's window.
(c) In the lake.
(d) On the mountain.

8. Why does a drunken Vogel say the accident is not as bad as it could have been?
(a) Several of the people who fell landed on soft bushes and survived.
(b) There were not many people on the cable car.
(c) Several of the people who died were "Yids" (a derogatory term for Jews).
(d) He was not one of the victims, so he finds that to be very fortunate.

9. What does the force of the weather do?
(a) Drowns some of the passengers on the yacht.
(b) Kills the man.
(c) Tears out the woman's womb.
(d) Wrecks the yacht.

10. That night, who begins to produce milk?
(a) The man.
(b) The corsetmaker.
(c) The woman.
(d) The chef.

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

12. What does the ice do?
(a) Stabs the man.
(b) Keeps their food cold.
(c) Cuts off one of the woman's breasts.
(d) Causes hypothermia.

13. Two days later, how is the hotel still feeling the affects of the storm?
(a) There is no food to serve.
(b) One wing of the hotel has not been repaired.
(c) The number of hotel guests is significantly lower.
(d) The storm has flooded the basement and billiard room.

14. What does the mistress of a salesman assume is the cause of the fire?
(a) One of the maids smoking.
(b) A sap-covered chimney.
(c) A candle that had been knocked over.
(d) Faulty wiring.

15. How does the couple return to their room?
(a) Tired.
(b) Filled with sadness.
(c) Hungry.
(d) Filled with desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the couple celebrate?

2. What is no one is able to explain?

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

4. What happens while the man and woman are on the yacht?

5. Why does the pastor escort Vogel's sister out?

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