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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?
(a) She feels too old to sing the part of a young girl.
(b) The audience will include members of the Italian government.
(c) She has not performed in several years.
(d) She has never performed at La Scala.

2. How is the woman a few weeks after resuming treatment?
(a) Completely back to normal.
(b) Her symptoms are mostly gone.
(c) Her symptoms completely disappear.
(d) Her symptoms return.

3. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?
(a) La Garafano.
(b) La Scala.
(c) La Cecchetti.
(d) L'Orlando.

4. How does Lisa convince the soldier to believe she is a Jew?
(a) She has Jewish features.
(b) She shows him her Star of David.
(c) She shows him her Hebrew Bible.
(d) She recites Hebrew.

5. How does Kolya show his true colors?
(a) He is a happy boy.
(b) He is very shy.
(c) His favorite colors are green and blue.
(d) He is a terror.

6. Why do the men force Lisa to perform oral sex on them?
(a) She is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(b) They do not like Catholics.
(c) She is of Jewish descent.
(d) They enjoy torturing women.

7. How does the crowd know that all "Yids" in Kiev were to report to a street corner by the Jewish cemetery with all their belongings or they would be shot?
(a) A letter from the German commander.
(b) An announcement on an intercom system throughout the city earlier that day.
(c) A notice in the paper the week before.
(d) A sign posted on the fence the day before.

8. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?
(a) He is not sure if he wants children.
(b) His first wife and their son died during a war.
(c) He knows fatherhood is a difficult job.
(d) He worries about the health of his child.

9. Why do Lisa and Victor take a trip on a passenger ship?
(a) To allow Kolya time to adjust to his new mother.
(b) For a honeymoon.
(c) To escape the Germans.
(d) For a family vacation.

10. Madame Cottin represents Madame R. What is the connection between Madame Cottin and Madame R?
(a) They are both corset-makers.
(b) Corset-fitting is similar to the discipline in her ballet studio.
(c) They look alike.
(d) They both teach ballet.

11. When does Lisa realize that it is the same place and she is the same person, though both have aged 40 years?
(a) When she swims in the pool.
(b) When she sees her family's home.
(c) When she leans against a pine tree and smells it,
(d) When she runs into her old neighbors.

12. What scars the woman's perfect memory of her mother?
(a) Her mother arguing with her aunt.
(b) Her mother leaving her to go shopping.
(c) Her mother divorcing her father.
(d) Her mother cavorting with her uncle.

13. The writings, Freud says, allow the woman to do what?
(a) Come to terms with her mother's faults and her own.
(b) Rest and recuperate.
(c) Show her abilities as a writer of fiction and a poet.
(d) Evaluate her sexuality.

14. What does Freud say the focus on orality ("sucking, biting, eating, gorging, taking in") reflects?
(a) Being drawn in by something.
(b) Animal instincts.
(c) Being attacked.
(d) A baby's first years.

15. What information does the letter contain that Lisa receives?
(a) Victor has been murdered.
(b) Freud has died.
(c) Vera has died in childbirth.
(d) Vera has given birth to her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Freud ask the woman to go home and write an interpretation of her hallucination?

2. What is a clue to what is really harming the woman?

3. How does Freud interpret the white hotel?

4. Why does Freud threaten to quit the woman's therapy?

5. What do they realize when they make it through the barrier?

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