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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0705.00028.] Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ N\) \((N \geq 1)\) with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega\). Let \(0<\lambda_ 1< \cdots<\lambda_ k< \cdots\) be the sequence of distinct eigenvalues of the eigenvalue problem \[ -\Delta u=\lambda u \text{ in } \Omega,\;u=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega. \] We denote by \(\theta_ 1\) the eigenfunction corresponding to the first eigenvalue \(\lambda_ 1\) with \(\theta_ 1>0\) on \(\Omega\) and \(\int_ \Omega \theta^ 2_ 1dx=1\). Let \(g \in C^ 1(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) for which \(\lim_{\zeta \to \pm \infty} g'(\zeta)\) exist. For a given \(h_ 1 \in L^ p(\Omega)\) with \(p>N\) and \(\int_ \Omega \theta_ 1h_ 1dx=0\), the author studies the number of solutions of the Dirichlet problem \[ \Delta u+g(u)=t \theta_ 1+h_ 1 \text{ in } \Omega,\;u=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \] where \(t\) is a parameter, when the interval with end points \(\lim_{\zeta \to \pm \infty} g'(\zeta)\) contains exactly one eigenvalue \(\lambda_ n\), \(n \geq 2\), inside. A result of \textit{A. J. Lazer} and \textit{P. J. McKenna} in [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 10, 107-150 (1985; Zbl 0572.35036)] is improved.