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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. 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) Kiev.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Milan.

2. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?
(a) "Don Giovanni."
(b) "La Boheme."
(c) "Rigoletto."
(d) "Madame Butterfly."

3. Why is the woman's mother estranged from her family?
(a) She has never gotten along with her mother.
(b) She marries a Polish Catholic.
(c) She marries a Russian Jew.
(d) She has an argument with her father.

4. Why does the woman continue to question the soldier?
(a) To distract herself from the visions she is having of him in his coffin.
(b) She is fascinated with war and wants to know details of his battles.
(c) She finds him very attractive and loves the sound of his voice.
(d) She is very interested in knowing as much as she can about the soldier.

5. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?
(a) Her mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(b) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.
(c) An automobile fire that traps her sister, and a terrible storm when she is at sea.
(d) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the woman ask the maid for some toiletries?

2. On the second night at the hotel a storm comes. What happens?

3. Where is the woman when she sits next to a young soldier?

4. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?

5. What does Freud call the 29-year-old woman in a case study?

(see the answer key)

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