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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 is a clue to what is really harming the woman?

2. Why is the woman afraid to have children?

3. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?

4. What does Freud want to do with Lisa's case study?

5. What will lead to the woman's healing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anna admit about her husband?

2. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

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

4. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

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

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

7. How is Anna when she returns from Gastein?

8. How does Freud relate Anna's troubles to his theory of the death instinct?

9. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

10. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa becomes close friends with Vera.

Part 1) Describe Vera.

Part 2) What are the circumstances under which Lisa meets Vera?

Part 3) What events significantly impact Vera's life? How?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa never has children of her own.

Part 1) Who becomes her adopted child? Why?

Part 2) What is the relationship like between Lisa and this child?

Part 3) What does Lisa sacrifice for this child? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The camp is a vision of the afterlife.

Part 1) Who is in this afterlife with Lisa?

Part 2) How would you envision the afterlife?

Part 3) Compare and contrast your vision of the afterlife with the vision of the afterlife in the book.

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