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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 an opera singer tell her family?

2. When the woman wakes up in the hotel room, why is she relieved?

3. Why must the woman leave the ballet school?

4. Why can the dreamer not escape?

5. Over what does a botanist mourn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the people on the yacht do?

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

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

5. Why does Ferenczi fear Gisela does not want to marry him?

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

7. What happens when the couple returns to the dining room?

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

9. What happens after the woman begins to produce milk?

10. Describe the corsetiere, the priest, and the chef.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Madame Cottin, the Japanese maid, and others fall to their deaths from a broken cable car.

Part 1) Why does this sexually excite the man?

Part 2) Why does Madame Cottin feel free as she falls?

Part 3) What might be the author's purpose for using a cable car as the vehicle of death?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa's parents are of two different religions.

Part 1) What religions?

Part 2) How does this affect their relationships with their families?

Part 3) How does her father's religion affect Lisa?

Essay Topic 3

Both Lisa and Kolya are killed at Bal Yari.

Part 1) How do the Germans convince the Jews to leave their homes?

Part 2) Lisa, who is not a Jew, still goes. Why?

Part 3) How does Lisa try to save both herself and Kolya? Why is she unsuccessful?

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