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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 couple do when the weather improves?

2. Who sings to the woman?

3. How does the couple find the hotel on their return?

4. Where does the man take a woman, the poet?

5. Soon, who else is drinking the woman's milk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What takes place between the man and the woman?

4. What is known about the young woman?

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

6. From whom are the letters?

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

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

9. Why has the Japanese maid been crying?

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 has suffered from two traumatic events in her childhood that lead to two events in her hallucination.

Part 1) What are these two events?

Part 2) What connection do these events have with her hallucination?

Part 3) How does she resolve this trauma by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Much of the language in the woman's writings is vulgar, yet sophisticated.

Part 1) What is vulgar about her writings?

Part 2) What makes her writings so sophisticated?

Part 3) Why is her work so shocking and unusual?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter One begins with the description of a dream that is later expanded.

Part 1) What is this dream?

Part 2) What is the purpose of the dream in relationship to the rest of the story?

Part 3) What does this dream foreshadow?

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