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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 woman touch whenever she is lying?

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

3. How does Kolya feel about his mother?

4. What information does the letter contain that Lisa receives?

5. What does Lisa experience for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Freud relate Anna's history?

2. What are the rumors spreading around the Jews waiting in line?

3. What are the similarities and differences between Lisa's train ride to the woman's?

4. How is this chapter different from the previous chapter?

5. What is the connection between the corsetiere, Madame Cottin and Madame R.?

6. What do the soldiers do to Lisa when they realize she is alive?

7. What does Freud say about "Done Giovanni" and "The Gastein Journal?"

8. Describe an anecdote Freud shares in the case study.

9. What does the memory of Anna's aunt trigger?

10. What has happened to Kolya's father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book opens with a series of letters.

Part 1) Describe these letters' authors and receivers.

Part 2) Describe the contents of the letters.

Part 3) What is the purpose of these letters?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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