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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the fictional letters between Sigmund Freud, his colleagues, and their friends contain?
(a) Unusual psychosexual writings of one of Freud's young patients.
(b) Love poems between Freud and his mistress.
(c) Suggestions for new therapy techniques.
(d) Accounts of the day Freud spends with the composer Gustav Mahler.

2. What does Vogel, breaking down, admit he sees?
(a) A petrified embryo floating in the lake.
(b) Angels in the trees.
(c) A child in the water.
(d) Stars in his eyes.

3. What does Freud call the 29-year-old woman in a case study?
(a) Frau Anna G.
(b) Frau Maria V.
(c) Frau Greta W.
(d) Frau Lisa G.

4. What does the woman ask the Professor?
(a) If she is too sexual.
(b) Why he is not at the hotel.
(c) Why there are so many disasters at the white hotel.
(d) What his son's name is.

5. While the guests are gone, about what does Vogel confront Lionheart?
(a) His idea about forming a militia.
(b) Panicking the ladies with his ideas.
(c) His unusual manner of dress.
(d) Complaining about the guests' mourning cries keeping him awake at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bolotnikov-Leskov, a politician, say the whales could have been "called" by Madame Cottin?

2. What does the ice do?

3. What excites the man so much that they start having sex again?

4. Why do the man and woman switch trains?

5. How does the couple return to their room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the hotel when the couple returns?

4. Who interrupts the couple by the stream? What does this character tell them?

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

6. Why are the young woman's writings intriguing to Freud?

7. Describe the guests' falls from the broken cable car.

8. What does the woman describe? What accompanies her intense images?

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

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

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