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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman touch whenever she is lying?
(a) Her nose.
(b) Her crucifix necklace.
(c) Her glasses.
(d) Her pearl earrings.

2. How does Freud interpret the white hotel?
(a) As the mother's womb.
(b) As a casket.
(c) As an insane asylum.
(d) As heaven.

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

4. In the dream, where does the woman tell the man on the train that she's going?
(a) To Moscow.
(b) To Kiev.
(c) To Vienna.
(d) To Paris.

5. How does the woman appear when she returns from Gastein?
(a) Even more ill.
(b) To be changed.
(c) Schizophrenic.
(d) Sad.

6. Why is it difficult for Lisa to allow Vera to see her son?
(a) Lisa is jealous of Vera.
(b) Vera may not be a good mother.
(c) Kolya has never met her.
(d) She feels like Kolya's real mother.

7. Why does the woman want to destroy the writings?
(a) She does not want Freud to study her any longer.
(b) She believes she is cured and is embarrassed by the writings.
(c) She believes they are an inaccurate portrayal of her mental state at the time.
(d) She believes them to be the work of the devil.

8. Of what is the crowd unsure?
(a) What they are protesting.
(b) What to take with them.
(c) Where they are going.
(d) Who is in charge of them.

9. What does Freud want to do with Lisa's case study?
(a) Publish it along with her hallucinatory writings.
(b) Give it to Oxford University.
(c) Send it to his friends.
(d) Send it to her as a gift.

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

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

12. What is the latest rumor circulating through the crowd?
(a) They will all be shot.
(b) They are going to a concentration camp.
(c) Everyone is going to Palestine.
(d) They will be slaves of the Germans.

13. Why does the German officer tell the police officer to kill everyone on the hillside?
(a) He wants everyone to die.
(b) He does not want any supporters of the Jews to survive.
(c) He will receive a bonus in his pay for the more he kills.
(d) If they are let out they will tell people what happened and no Jews will show up the next day.

14. Why is Freud not surprised that the woman has a relationship with someone like A.?
(a) She has already begun a pattern of destructive relationships with men.
(b) She has a history of abuse in her early childhood.
(c) Her father neglected her, so it is no surprise that neglect continued.
(d) He is handsome and intriguing.

15. What does Lisa share in a Christmas letter to Aunt Magda?
(a) Information about her sessions with Freud.
(b) Stories of her family.
(c) Her experiences at La Scala.
(d) Her life as an opera singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kolya feel about his mother?

2. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?

3. What is the camp?

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

5. Upon whom are the man and woman based?

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