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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Health Resort, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?
(a) After her last session with Freud.
(b) After seeing the Shroud.
(c) After mass.
(d) After her performance at La Scala.

3. It's 1929, and an opera singer named Frau Elisabeth (Lisa) Erdman is traveling from Vienna to what city to perform in a show?
(a) London.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Milan.
(d) Moscow.

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

5. What does the couple do when the weather improves?
(a) They go out by the lake and fish.
(b) They go out to the balcony and watch the Leonid meteor shower.
(c) They go out to the balcony and watch the falling stars.
(d) They go down to dinner with the other guests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the woman continue to question the soldier?

2. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?

3. What does the man do to the woman's hair?

4. Why is the woman's mother estranged from her family?

5. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?

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