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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only way to tell the woman's mother and aunt apart?
(a) One has a mole on her cheek and one does not.
(b) One wears a cross and one does not.
(c) They have different hairstyles.
(d) One is taller than the other.

2. Why does Freud find the woman impenetrable?
(a) He has still not found the source of her hysteria.
(b) She keeps important information from him.
(c) She lies to him.
(d) She believes she is healthy.

3. How does Kolya feel about his mother?
(a) He regrets having an old woman for a mother.
(b) He is indifferent to her.
(c) He loves her as he would a birth mother.
(d) He is unsure how he feels about her.

4. What do they hear when they stop to eat?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Sounds of machine gun fire.
(c) Bombs exploding.
(d) Music.

5. What will lead to the woman's healing?
(a) Reliving the memories.
(b) Shock therapy.
(c) Hypnotherapy.
(d) Drugs.

6. How does everyone around Lisa feel?
(a) Excited.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Angry.

7. Why does Lisa feel odd in Kiev?
(a) The city is very different from other European cities.
(b) She does not speak the language.
(c) She has a sense of deja vu.
(d) The city has changed so much since her childhood.

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

9. Why does Lisa ignore her desires?
(a) She can better concentrate.
(b) It is more peaceful.
(c) She wants to be more responsible.
(d) Her singing is much improved.

10. Feeling better, what does Anna do when she leaves Freud's care?
(a) She goes back to the health resort, Bad Gastein.
(b) She gets remarried.
(c) She pursues her musical career again.
(d) She moves to Kiev.

11. What do they realize when they make it through the barrier?
(a) The train is already full.
(b) There is no train.
(c) The train is dirty and smells of human feces.
(d) The train is running late.

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

13. What does Freud ask her to do, which results in "Don Giovanni?"
(a) Write down her experiences at the white hotel.
(b) Write down what she is feeling.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Write an opera.

14. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?
(a) The abuse she receives as a young girl.
(b) Her marriage.
(c) Her early sexual relationships.
(d) A fear of enjoying herself when she knew others were suffering.

15. Lisa spots a woman they know. Who is this woman?
(a) Another opera singer from La Scala.
(b) The daughter of the cellist in the Kiev Opera, Sonia.
(c) A neighbor from Vienna.
(d) The conductor's daughter from the Kiev Opera, Sara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?

2. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?

3. What is the latest rumor circulating through the crowd?

4. Instead of being shot at Babi Yar, what happens to Lisa and Kolya?

5. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?

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